[PATCH v5] mtd: limit OTP NVMEM cell parse to non-NAND devices

[Miquel Raynal]

On Fri, 2024-04-12 at 10:50:26 UTC, Christian Marangi wrote:
> MTD OTP logic is very fragile on parsing NVMEM cell and can be
> problematic with some specific kind of devices.
> 
> The problem was discovered by e87161321a40 ("mtd: rawnand: macronix:
> OTP access for MX30LFxG18AC") where OTP support was added to a NAND
> device. With the case of NAND devices, it does require a node where ECC
> info are declared and all the fixed partitions, and this cause the OTP
> codepath to parse this node as OTP NVMEM cells, making probe fail and
> the NAND device registration fail.
> 
> MTD OTP parsing should have been limited to always using compatible to
> prevent this error by using node with compatible "otp-user" or
> "otp-factory".
> 
> NVMEM across the years had various iteration on how cells could be
> declared in DT, in some old implementation, no_of_node should have been
> enabled but now add_legacy_fixed_of_cells should be used to disable
> NVMEM to parse child node as NVMEM cell.
> 
> To fix this and limit any regression with other MTD that makes use of
> declaring OTP as direct child of the dev node, disable
> add_legacy_fixed_of_cells if we detect the MTD type is Nand.
> 
> With the following logic, the OTP NVMEM entry is correctly created with
> no cells and the MTD Nand is correctly probed and partitions are
> correctly exposed.
> 
> Fixes: 4b361cfa8624 ("mtd: core: add OTP nvmem provider support")
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v6.7+
> Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth at gmail.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/fixes, thanks.

Miquel