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2017-10-06libflash/blocklevel: suppress debug printoutStewart Smith1-1/+0
while this is PR_DEBUG, and we shouldn't be printing it to the console, we do because of a long standing bug in how we do log priorities. So, for the moment at least, just don't print it at all. Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-09-27libflash/file: Handle short read()s and write()s correctlyCyril Bur1-2/+4
Currently we don't move the buffer along for a short read() or write() and nor do we request only the remaining amount. Fixes: c7c3a4cd53d libflash/file: Add a file access backend to for the blocklevel interface. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-08-24libflash/test/test-blocklevel: fix memory leak on exitStewart Smith1-0/+2
==8304==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks Direct leak of 4096 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from: #0 0x7f70eda8f850 in malloc (/lib64/libasan.so.4+0xde850) #1 0x408ba0 in main libflash/test/test-blocklevel.c:298 #2 0x7f70ec8e1509 in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x20509) Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-08-24libflash: fix memory leak on flash_exit()Stewart Smith1-2/+5
LeakSanitizer caught this with libflash/test/test-flash.c: Direct leak of 4096 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from: #0 0x7f72546ee850 in malloc (/lib64/libasan.so.4+0xde850) #1 0x405ff0 in flash_init libflash/test/../libflash.c:830 #2 0x408632 in main libflash/test/test-flash.c:382 #3 0x7f7253540509 in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x20509) Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-08-24libflash/test/test-flash.c: fix memory leak on exitStewart Smith1-0/+1
LeakSanitizer spotted this: Direct leak of 131072 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from: #0 0x7fb99e42b850 in malloc (/lib64/libasan.so.4+0xde850) #1 0x408612 in main libflash/test/test-flash.c:380 #2 0x7fb99d27d509 in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x20509) Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-08-15libflash/blocklevel: Fix theoretical use after free (CID 145924)Cyril Bur1-0/+1
If we extend the ECC protection array and subsequently decide to merge regions in one call then there would be a use after free bug. While this exists in theory and was caught by Coverity, it should never happen since we only merge regions if we're low on space but the cause of the use after free is due to having just created more space. Nevertheless, this is the kind of ticking timebomb that simply requires some code rearrangement or different 'optimisations' to become possible. Best to just make it impossible. Fixes CID 145924 Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-08-15libflash/libflash: Remove logicially dead code (CID 97821)Cyril Bur1-2/+0
libflash/libflash.c: line 369: chunk = 0x100 - (d & 0xff); line 370: if (chunk > 0x100) At condition chunk > 256U, the value of chunk must be between 1 and 256. Fixes CID 97821 Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-08-15libflash/mbox-flash: Fix unintentional integer overflow (CID 142226)Cyril Bur1-2/+2
Fixes: CID 142226 (#1 of 1): overflow_before_widen: Potentially overflowing expression `1 << mbox_flash->shift` with type int (32 bits, signed) is evaluated using 32-bit arithmetic, and then used in a context that expects an expression of type uint64_t (64 bits, unsigned). Fixes: CID 142226 Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-08-01external/pflash: tests: Move the test-miscprint to pflash testsCyril Bur3-32/+2
New code that is very much pflash functionality was added in commit f2c87a3d2f6 "pflash option to retrieve PNOR partition flags". Unfortunately at the time there wasn't an easy way to test pflash. The previous patch adds pflash infrastructure and plumbs it into `make check` nicely. This commit converts the tests originally added to libflash tests. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-08-01libflash/libffs: Don't require 'part' size to be known by callersCyril Bur3-13/+22
Currently the FFS header/TOC generation code requires that consumers know the size of their TOC beforehand. While this may be advantageous in some circumstances if there are known limitations of other software. It should not be a requirement. Knowing the size of the FFS header/TOC partially breaks the abstraction since it would require consumers of the library to be aware of/have some idea of the on flash structure and size. Future work may introduce functions to force sizes but the default behaviour should be to calculate it behind the scenes. This patch also addresses an off by one issue in checking for TOC overflow. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-08-01libflash/file: Break up MTD erase ioctl() callsCyril Bur1-25/+35
Unfortunately not all drivers are created equal and several drivers on which pflash relies block in the kernel for quite some time and ignore signals. This is really only a problem if pflash is to perform large erases. So don't, perform these ops in small chunks. An in kernel fix is possible in most cases but it takes time and systems will be running older drivers for quite some time. Since sector erases aren't significantly slower than whole chip erases there isn't much of a performance penalty to breaking up the erase ioctl()s. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-08-01libflash/file: Fix bad subtraction in file erase pathCyril Bur1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-08-01libflash: Adding debugging outputCyril Bur5-21/+77
Also add usage text to pflash. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-07-19pflash: build with skiboot HOSTCFLAGS warningsStewart Smith1-0/+1
mostly missing prototypes and unused parameters. Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-07-19pflash option to retrieve PNOR partition flagsMichael Tritz5-5/+44
This commit extends pflash with an option to retrieve and print information for a particular partition, including the content from "pflash -i" and a verbose list of set miscellaneous flags. -i option is also updated to print a short list of flags in addition to the ECC flag, with one character per flag. A test of the new option is included in libflash/test. Signed-off-by: Michael Tritz <mtritz@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> [stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com: various test fixes, enable gcov] Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-26libflash/libffs: Zero checksum wordsCyril Bur1-0/+16
On writing ffs entries to flash libffs doesn't zero checksum words before calculating the checksum across the entire structure. This causes an inaccurate calculation of the checksum as it may calculate a checksum on non-zero checksum bytes. This patch solves this by zeroing the entire structure which is to be written to the flash before calculating the checksum across the struct. Fixes: 602dee45 libflash/libffs: Rework libffs Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-26libffs: Fix ffs_lookup_part() return valueBenjamin Herrenschmidt1-4/+6
It would return success when the part wasn't found Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-21libflash/libffs: Correctly update the actual size of the partitionCyril Bur1-1/+1
libffs has been updating FFS partition information in the wrong place which leads to incomplete erases and corruption. Fixes: 602dee45 libflash/libffs: Rework libffs Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-05-26libflash: Initialise entries list earlierOliver O'Halloran1-1/+1
In the bail-out path we call ffs_close() to tear down the partially initialised ffs_handle. ffs_close() expects the entries list to be initialised so we need to do that earlier to prevent a null pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-05-26libflash/mbox-flash: Implement MARK_WRITE_ERASED mbox callSuraj Jitindar Singh1-4/+59
Version two of the mbox-flash protocol defines a new command: MARK_WRITE_ERASED. This command provides a simple way to mark a region of flash as all 0xff without the need to go and write all 0xff. This is an optimisation as there is no need for an erase before a write, it is the responsibility of the BMC to deal with the flash correctly, however in v1 it was ambiguous what a client should do if the flash should be erased but not actually written to. This allows of a optimal path to resolve this problem. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com> Acked-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-05-26libflash/mbox-flash: Update to V2 of the protocolCyril Bur2-135/+559
Updated version 2 of the protocol can be found at: https://github.com/openbmc/mboxbridge/blob/master/Documentation/mbox_protocol.md This commit changes mbox-flash such that it will preferentially talk version 2 to any capable daemon but still remain capable of talking to v1 daemons. Version two changes some of the command definitions for increased consistency and usability. Version two includes more attention bits - these are now dealt with at a simple level. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com> Acked-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-05-26libflash/mbox-flash: Minor fixups before V2Cyril Bur1-1/+7
- Warn if flushing with closed write window. - Call msg_free_memory() in mbox_flash_init() before a successful return. No leak is present as the current allocation theme is from static memory. However as this is likely to change in the future, best to ensure that msg_free_memory() is called after every allocation. - Fix bug where len argument may be incorrect in mark dirty command. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> Acked-by: Cyril Bur <cyri.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-20libflash/file: Only use 64bit MTD erase ioctl() when neededCyril Bur1-6/+38
We recently made MTD 64 bit safe in e5720d3fe94 which now requires the 64 bit MTD erase ioctl. Unfortunately this ioctl is not present in older kernels used by some BMC vendors that use pflash. This patch addresses this by only using the 64bit version of the erase ioctl() if the parameters exceed 32bit in size. If an erase requires the 64bit ioctl() on a kernel which does not support it, the code will still attempt it. There is no way of knowing beforehand if the kernel supports it. The ioctl() will fail and an error will be returned from from the function. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
2017-04-07libflash: Add tests for blocklevel_smart_erase()Cyril Bur1-2/+225
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-07libflash/blocklevel: Add blocklevel_smart_erase()Cyril Bur2-2/+130
With recent changes to flash drivers in linux not all erase blocks are 4K anymore. While most level of the pflash/gard tool stacks were written to not mind, it turns out there are bugs which means not 4K erase block backing stores aren't handled all that well. Part of the problem is the FFS layout that is 4K aligned and with larger block sizes pflash and the gard tool don't check if their erase commands are erase block aligned - which they are usually not with 64K erase blocks. This patch aims to add common functionality to blocklevel so that (at least) pflash and the gard tool don't need to worry about the problem anymore. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-03-27libflash: Fix pflash -iMichael Neuling1-2/+3
pflash -i is currently broken due to this commit commit 602dee4505cd0ceb5b69f056ec403f982b585791 Author: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> libflash/libffs: Rework libffs It's output doesn't correctly detect the last partition and continues printing forever. This fixes it by returning null when we don't find a partition in ffs_get_part(). Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-03-24libffs: Understand how to create FFS partition TOCs and entries.Cyril Bur3-14/+393
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-03-24libflash/libffs: Rework libffsCyril Bur3-200/+368
This patch attempts a rework of libffs to prepare it for future changes. Firstly the types are split in two: 1. Packed, big endian structures used to map exactly how the data is on flash. 2. CPU endian, sane valued, not packed structures used to manipulate FFS data. Secondly: The packed struct can use BE types so that in future tools like sparse can be run over the code to check for endian conversion bugs. Thirdly: defines of sizeof(struct ...) were removed for clarity. Finally: For ease of manipulation, the in memory FFS structures contain a linked list of entries as this will make addition and removal operations much easier. This patch should be invisible to consumers of libffs. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-02-23libflash: blocklevel backend for MBOX flash accessCyril Bur3-1/+601
The use MBOX protocol to request flash access from the BMC. Then read/write to the 'flash' through windows it creates on LPC FW space. Reference implementation of the mbox flash daemon for BMC userspace: https://github.com/cyrilbur-ibm/mboxbridge Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-01-10libflash: fix integer type in printfPatrick Williams1-1/+1
A format string had a 0x prefix on an integer but printed in decimal. Signed-off-by: Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-11-11libflash/libffs: Fix possible NULL dereferenceCyril Bur1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-11-08libflash/file: Use 64bit ioctl() to erase from MTDCyril Bur1-2/+2
While we'll 'never' have flash chips larger than 32bit, work was recently done to blocklevel for it to be 64bit compatible for other backends. Since there is a 64bit ioctl() lets use it. There is currently no known case where 32bit is not sufficient but this doesn't mean someone might not do something strange in the future. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-11-02core/flash: Don't do anything clever for OPAL_FLASH_{READ, WRITE, ERASE}Cyril Bur2-19/+46
These OPAL calls are exposing the host flash chip to linux as a flash device. The host is expected to understand that it is raw flash and use it appropriately, it isn't skiboots place to strip ecc bytes or perform erase before writes. Over the course of other developments blocklevel has gotten quite clever but in this case the cleverness is inappropriate. Fixes: https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/issues/44 Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-10-25libflash/libffs: Use blocklevel_smart_write() when updating partitionsCyril Bur1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-10-11libflash/blocklevel: Allow double ecc protecting a regionCyril Bur3-51/+119
Currently the policy for calling ECC protecting a range at the blocklevel layer is that the requested region be completely unprotected otherwise the call will return an error. It turns out that duplicate calls to ffs_init() with true as the last parameter (for the same blocklevel structure) will cause duplicate attempts to ecc_protect() ranges. Change the policy within blocklevel to allow duplicate protecting. In fact the new policy almost guarantees no failure (baring something odd like malloc() failing). It will detect that the range is currently already fully protected and do nothing, detect that part of the range is or is not and extend the existing range or detect that a range fits perfectly between two ranges in which case it will merge the ranges. Also adjust tests to match the new policy. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-09-15libflash: add 128MB MX66L1G45G partJoel Stanley1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-09-02consolidate gcov flags into HOSTGCOVFLAGS for host binariesStewart Smith1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-08-25flash: Rework error paths and messages for multiple flash controllersMichael Neuling1-1/+1
The current flash code was written with only one flash chip, which is a system_flash (ie. the PNOR image), in mind. Now that we have mambo bogusdisk flash, we can have many flash chips. This is resulting in some confusing output messages. This reworks some of the error paths and warnings to make this more coherent when we have multiple flash chips. We assume everything can be a system flash, so I've removed the is_system_flash parameter from flash_register(). We'll use the first system flash we find and warn if we find another since discovery order is not a guaranteed API. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-08-02flash: Make size 64 bit safeMichael Neuling9-52/+60
This makes the size of flash 64 bit safe so that we can have flash devices greater than 4GB. This is especially useful for mambo disks passed through to Linux. Fortunately the device tree interface and the linux device driver are 64bit safe so no changes are required there. Userspace gard and flash tools are also updated to ensure "make check" still passes. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-08-02flash: Add documentation for blocklevel_smart_write()Michael Neuling1-1/+8
A function called "smart" doesn't give the user any clues as to why they would want to use it over other calls. This adds some documentation so users can determine when to best use this call. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-07-12make check: make test runs less noisyStewart Smith1-2/+2
Run a small wrapper around some unit tests with the QTEST makefile macro (QTEST=Quiet TEST). Also, wrap boot tests in mambo and qemu to be quiet by default. Both ./test/run.sh and the modified mambo/qemu test runner scripts output full stdout and stderr in the event of error. Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-07-05libflash: Add sanity checks to ffs init code.Cyril Bur1-0/+22
Quite a lot of code relies on values read from flash. These values shouldn't be totally trusted without at least basic sanity checks. Fixes coverity bug: 119719 Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-05-18libflash: fix bug on reading truncated flash fileStewart Smith1-1/+1
If we had a truncated file where libflash would attempt to read past the end, instead of erroring out, we'd get stuck in an infinite loop. Why? Because we weren't acknowledging that read() returns 0 on EOF. Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com>
2016-03-30*/test/*: Added '<subdir>-check' make targetsOliver O'Halloran1-2/+5
Currently these exist for some parts of the source tree, but not all of it. They're nice if you are only modifing code in a one part of the tree as the full test suite can be a little slow. Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-11libflash/libffs: Reporting seeing all 0xFF bytes during init.Cyril Bur1-0/+19
When flash controllers get deconfigured or yanked out from under these tools flash accesses tend to just return all 0xFF bytes. libffs is usually the first thing to do reads and will fail parsing its partition structures. This patch adds reporting when it fails to parse because it got all 0xFF bytes. The idea is that this will help debugging by splitting the possible reasons for a failed init into 1) flash controller issue or reading erased flash 2) flash corruption or not valid reading partition data. These two cases are nice to be able to separate as early as possible as they usually mean two quite different type of bugs. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-02-18libflash: Support for Micron N25Q256Ax and Winbond W25Q256BV NOR flashAdriana Kobylak1-0/+6
These 32MB chips are used in the Barreleye OpenBMC BMC. Signed-off-by: Adriana Kobylak <anoo@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-01-15libflash/blocklevel: Add keep_alive parameterCyril Bur5-26/+150
Currently the file backend will keep a file descriptor open until the structure is destroyed. This is undesirable for daemons and long running processes that only have a very occasional need to access the file. Keeping the file open requires users of blocklevel to close and reinit their structures every time, doing is isn't disastrous but can easily be managed at the interface level. This has been done at the blocklevel_device interface so as to provide minimal changes to arch_flash_init(). At the moment there isn't a need for the actually flash driver to be able to do this, this remains unimplmented there. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-01-12libflash/libffs: Check for NULL and set return pointer in ffs_next_side()Cyril Bur1-0/+6
Currently there are two error cases that ffs_next_side() may hit and will leave the return pointer untouched. This isn't a huge problem as the caller should be checking the return value anyway but as we know, callers don't always do that. It doesn't hurt for ffs_next_side() to make it as clear as possible that it encountered a problem. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Sam Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-01-12libflash/libffs: Rename ffs_cmp() to ffs_equal()Cyril Bur2-2/+2
Some confusion has arisen from the first consumer of ffs_cmp() in that they expected a strcmp style less than one, zero or greater than one return value. This has been addressed in this patch in two ways, by changing the return type to a boolean in order to (attempt) to alert the programmer that this is not the case and by renaming it to equal to avoid the implied comparison and imply very much a boolean outcome. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Sam Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-01-08libffs: Add helper get ffs_handle to the "OTHER_SIDE"Cyril Bur2-3/+56
Some FFS structures will have a partition called "OTHER_SIDE", this is a pointer to another ffs TOC on which another ffs_handle can be instantiated. Currently users of libffs would have to query for the presence of this partition and then initialise a new ffs_handle themselves. As accessing the "other" side appears to be becoming a common operation this convenience function should prove useful. Furthermore, it is possible for these multiTOC flash chips to be circular, that is the "OTHER_SIDE" partition of 'secondary' TOC points back to the initial TOC. The solution is to add a comparison function capable of detecting when repeated calls to ffs_next_side() go full circle. It should be noted here that this is all the comparator function is designed to detect, it will not be able to detect two identical TOCs opened with different blocklevel_devices as this would require the ability to compare blocklevel_devices. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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