[PATCH] drivers/mtd: rawnand: nandsim: Fix stale NAND_ROW_ADDR_3 with overridesize

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Thu Oct 1 03:54:28 PDT 2026


Hi Wang,

On 01/10/2026 at 18:33:59 +08, wang wei <a929244872 at 163.com> wrote:

> The overridesize module parameter changes the size of the simulated
> device after nand_scan() has completed. It updates nsmtd->size,
> memorg->eraseblocks_per_lun, chip->chip_shift and chip->pagemask to
> match the new geometry, but leaves the NAND_ROW_ADDR_3 option
> untouched, even though nand_scan_ident() set it from the geometry
> decoded out of the ID bytes.
>
> When the ID bytes describe a device larger than 128 MiB and
> overridesize shrinks the simulation to 128 MiB or less, the stale
> option makes the core emit one extra row address byte (page >> 16,
> always zero given the reduced page count) in every read, program and
> erase operation, while the simulator state machine expects one byte
> less. All accesses then fail with:
>
>     nandsim: error: write_byte: address (0x0) isn't expected, expected
>     state is STATE_CMD_READSTART, switch to STATE_READY
>
> The opposite direction is equally broken: growing a small device past
> 128 MiB keeps NAND_ROW_ADDR_3 cleared, so the third row address byte
> is dropped and the wrong pages are silently addressed.

Fine until here.

> This used to work before commit 14157f861437 ("mtd: nand: introduce
> NAND_ROW_ADDR_3 flag"). Back then nandsim kept chip->chipsize in sync

                                   ,

> with the override, and nand_command_lp() decided at run time, per
> command, whether the third row address cycle was needed by testing
> chip->chipsize against 128 MiB. The decision thus always saw the

"The decision"?

> overridden size. The above commit moved the decision to
> nand_scan_ident(), which encodes it once into NAND_ROW_ADDR_3 at
> scan time -- before nandsim applies the override -- and the
> overridesize path was never taught to re-evaluate the flag. The
> commit that introduced the regression is:
>
>     https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/14157f861437ebe2d624b0a845b91bbdf8ca9a2d

This is not needed, you mention it above and below already.

> Re-evaluate NAND_ROW_ADDR_3 right after overriding chip_shift, using
> the same test as nand_scan_ident(), so that the address width emitted
> by the core always matches ns->geom.pgaddrbytes, which ns_init()
> derives from the overridden total size.
>
> Fixes: 14157f861437 ("mtd: nand: introduce NAND_ROW_ADDR_3 flag")

Cc: stable

> Signed-off-by: wang wei <a929244872 at 163.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nandsim.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nandsim.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nandsim.c
> index fe96803..176db89 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nandsim.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nandsim.c
> @@ -2359,6 +2359,18 @@ static int __init ns_init_module(void)
>  		targetsize = nanddev_target_size(&chip->base);
>  		chip->chip_shift = ffs(nsmtd->erasesize) + overridesize - 1;
>  		chip->pagemask = (targetsize >> chip->page_shift) - 1;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * NAND_ROW_ADDR_3 was set by nand_scan_ident() from the
> +		 * geometry decoded out of the ID bytes, which the size
> +		 * override has just made stale. Re-evaluate it against
> +		 * the new geometry, otherwise the core emits one more (or
> +		 * one less) row address byte than the simulator expects.
> +		 */

Everything above this line can just be deleted. Tell your LLM that this
is obvious enough and does not require any particular comment.

> +		if (chip->chip_shift - chip->page_shift > 16)
> +			chip->options |= NAND_ROW_ADDR_3;
> +		else
> +			chip->options &= ~NAND_ROW_ADDR_3;
>  	}
>  
>  	ret = ns_setup_wear_reporting(nsmtd);

Instead of repeating the operation in nandsim, why not calling
nand_scan() after over writing the size? (inverting the two blocks)

Thanks,
Miquèl



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