History log of /linux-master/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 19bfa9eb 20-Jun-2023 Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>

mtd: use refcount to prevent corruption

When underlying device is removed mtd core will crash
in case user space is holding open handle.
Need to use proper refcounting so device is release
only when has no users.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20230620131905.648089-2-alexander.usyskin@intel.com


# 0f071004 25-Mar-2019 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

mtd: Provide fs_context-aware mount_mtd() replacement

Provide a function, get_tree_mtd(), to replace mount_mtd(), using an
fs_context struct to hold the parameters.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
cc: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>
cc: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 2b6f0090 02-Jan-2019 Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>

mtd: Check add_mtd_device() ret code

add_mtd_device() can fail. We should always check its return value
and gracefully handle the failure case. Fix the call sites where this
not done (in mtdpart.c) and add a __must_check attribute to the
prototype to avoid this kind of mistakes.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>


# 5ac67ce3 27-Mar-2018 Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>

mtd: move code adding (registering) partitions to the parse_mtd_partitions()

This commit slightly simplifies the code. Every parse_mtd_partitions()
caller (out of two existing ones) had to add partitions & cleanup parser
on its own. This moves that responsibility into the function.

That change also allows dropping struct mtd_partitions argument.

There is one minor behavior change caused by this cleanup. If
parse_mtd_partitions() fails to add partitions (add_mtd_partitions()
return an error) then mtd_device_parse_register() will still try to
add (register) fallback partitions. It's a real corner case affecting
one of uncommon error paths and shouldn't cause any harm.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# adc83bf8 09-Dec-2015 Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

mtd: partitions: support a cleanup callback for parsers

If partition parsers need to clean up their resources, we shouldn't
assume that all memory will fit in a single kmalloc() that the caller
can kfree(). We should allow the parser to provide a proper cleanup
routine.

Note that this means we need to keep a hold on the parser's module for a
bit longer, and release it later with mtd_part_parser_put().

Alongside this, define a default callback that we'll automatically use
if the parser doesn't provide one, so we can still retain the old
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>


# 07fd2f87 04-Dec-2015 Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

mtd: partitions: pass around 'mtd_partitions' wrapper struct

For some of the core partitioning code, it helps to keep info about the
parsed partition (and who parsed them) together in one place.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>


# c42c2710 04-Dec-2015 Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

mtd: partitions: remove kmemdup()

The use of kmemdup() complicates the error handling a bit. We don't
actually need to allocate new memory, since this reference is treated as
const, and it is copied into new memory by the partition registration
code anyway. So remove it.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>


# 660685d9 14-Mar-2013 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

mtd: merge mtdchar module with mtdcore

The MTD subsystem has historically tried to be as configurable as possible. The
side-effect of this is that its configuration menu is rather large, and we are
gradually shrinking it. For example, we recently merged partitions support with
the mtdcore.

This patch does the next step - it merges the mtdchar module to mtdcore. And in
this case this is not only about eliminating too fine-grained separation and
simplifying the configuration menu. This is also about eliminating seemingly
useless kernel module.

Indeed, mtdchar is a module that allows user-space making use of MTD devices
via /dev/mtd* character devices. If users do not enable it, they simply cannot
use MTD devices at all. They cannot read or write the flash contents. Is it a
sane and useful setup? I believe not. And everyone just enables mtdchar.

Having mtdchar separate is also a little bit harmful. People sometimes miss the
fact that they need to enable an additional configuration option to have
user-space MTD interfaces, and then they wonder why on earth the kernel does
not allow using the flash? They spend time asking around.

Thus, let's just get rid of this module and make it part of mtd core.

Note, mtdchar had additional configuration option to enable OTP interfaces,
which are present on some flashes. I removed that option as well - it saves a
really tiny amount space.

[dwmw2: Strictly speaking, you can mount file systems on MTD devices just
fine without the mtdchar (or mtdblock) devices; you just can't do
other manipulations directly on the underlying device. But still I
agree that it makes sense to make this unconditional. And Yay! we
get to kill off an instance of checking CONFIG_foo_MODULE, which is
an abomination that should never happen.]

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>


# cb70783c 15-Mar-2013 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

mtd: mtdcore: cleanup mtdcore.h a little

Remove useless extern qualifiers. Not that this is a problem, but we more often
declare function prototypes without 'extern', so this is just about being more
consistent. And I am going to add a couple more prototypes here.

Additionally, remove a useless comment.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>


# 26a47346 11-Mar-2013 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

mtd: add 'const' qualifier to a couple of register functions

'mtd_device_parse_register()' and 'parse_mtd_partitions()' functions accept a
an array of character pointers. These functions modify neither the pointers nor
the characters they point to. The characters are actually names of the MTD
parsers.

At the moment, the argument type is 'const char **', which means that only the
names of the parsers are constant. Let's turn the argument type into 'const
char * const *', which means that both names and the pointers which point to
them are constant.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>


# 3165f44b 23-Jun-2011 Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>

mtd: hide parse_mtd_partitions

There is no need to export parse_mtd_partitions() now , as it's fully handled
by registration functions. So move the definition to private header and
remove respective EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# eea72d5f 23-May-2011 Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>

mtd: remove add_mtd_partitions, add_mtd_device and friends

These symbols are replaced with mtd_device_register() (and removal with
mtd_device_unregister()) for public registration.

Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>


# b520e412 29-Jan-2010 Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

mtd: Replace static array of devices with an idr structure

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>


# f1332ba2 29-Jan-2010 Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

mtd: Introduce and use iteration macro for reading the MTD device table

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>


# 356d70f1 28-May-2007 Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>

[MTD] mtdcore.c: share syms with mtd_blkdev.c

Fix the sparse warnings generated by the implicit
dependency of mtd_blkdevs.c and mtd_core.c for the
two symbols mtd_table and mtd_table_mutex. This is
done by adding an local header file mtdcore.h to
define these (including the warning about the
non-proliferation of these symbols).

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>