[PATCH] mtd: bcm47xxpart: improve handling TRX partition size
Boris Brezillon
boris.brezillon at bootlin.com
Sat May 12 00:51:02 PDT 2018
On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:24:52 +0200
Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>
> When bcm47xxpart finds a TRX partition (container) it's supposed to jump
> to the end of it and keep looking for more partitions. TRX and its
> subpartitions are handled be a separated parser.
^ by a separate parser.
No need to send a new version, I'll fix it when applying.
>
> The problem with old code was relying on the length specified in a TRX
> header. That isn't reliable as TRX is commonly modified to have checksum
> cover only non-changing subpartitions. Otherwise modifying e.g. a rootfs
> would result in CRC32 mismatch and bootloader refusing to boot a
> firmware.
>
> Fix it by trying better to figure out a real TRX size. We can securely
> assume that TRX has to cover all subpartitions and the last one is at
> least of a block size in size. Then compare it with a length field.
>
> This makes code more optimal & reliable thanks to skipping data that
> shouldn't be parsed.
I didn't check the TRX parsing logic, so I'm assuming you know what you
do here and you've tested the modifications ;-).
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c b/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
> index fe2581d9d882..1f0239848ebe 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
> @@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static int bcm47xxpart_parse(struct mtd_info *master,
> /* TRX */
> if (buf[0x000 / 4] == TRX_MAGIC) {
> struct trx_header *trx;
> + uint32_t last_subpart;
> + uint32_t trx_size;
>
> if (trx_num >= ARRAY_SIZE(trx_parts))
> pr_warn("No enough space to store another TRX found at 0x%X\n",
> @@ -195,11 +197,23 @@ static int bcm47xxpart_parse(struct mtd_info *master,
> bcm47xxpart_add_part(&parts[curr_part++], "firmware",
> offset, 0);
>
> - /* Jump to the end of TRX */
> + /*
> + * Try to find TRX size. The "length" field isn't fully
> + * reliable as it could be decreased to make CRC32 cover
> + * only part of TRX data. It's commonly used as checksum
> + * can't cover e.g. ever-changing rootfs partition.
> + * Use offsets as helpers for assuming min TRX size.
> + */
> trx = (struct trx_header *)buf;
> - offset = roundup(offset + trx->length, blocksize);
> - /* Next loop iteration will increase the offset */
> - offset -= blocksize;
> + last_subpart = max3(trx->offset[0], trx->offset[1],
> + trx->offset[2]);
> + trx_size = max(trx->length, last_subpart + blocksize);
> +
> + /*
> + * Skip the TRX data. Decrease offset by block size as
> + * the next loop iteration will increase it.
> + */
> + offset += roundup(trx_size, blocksize) - blocksize;
> continue;
> }
>
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