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[U-Boot] Strange CFI flash problem

Message ID CAGXu5jKGdEdCbQSor9u2y_LA49D4JZatmiOO7zEvqdWYcHheCg@mail.gmail.com
State RFC
Delegated to: Tom Rini
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Kees Cook April 14, 2014, 3:38 p.m. UTC
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Matthias Weißer <weisserm@arcor.de> wrote:
> Am 14.04.2014 08:09, schrieb Matthias Weißer:
>
>> Hi Wolfgang
>>
>> Am 11.04.2014 12:43, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
>>>
>>> Dear Matthias,
>>>
>>> In message <5347BBBC.9000806@arcor.de> you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> we are currently trying to get an out-of-tree board based on 2013.01
>>>> back in sync with current master and observing a strange behavior which
>>>> we think is located in the CFI flash system. If we load an image via
>>>> tftp, copy it to flash and then try to run the image via bootm we see an
>>>> error while decomressing:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>     Uncompressing Kernel Image ... LZO: uncompress or overwrite error -5
>>>
>>>
>>> Are you sure your malloc arena is big enough for LZO?  Try if
>>> increasing it helps...
>>
>>
>> We increaded it from 4MB to 8MB and the behavior is still the same.
>>
>> We also observed a different behavior when tftping the image to RAM and
>> then directly executing it without copying it to flash. It seems that
>> the flash device (EN29GL256H) is then in some a mode (maybe auto-select)
>> which prevents it from normal read operations which doesn't allow the
>> flash driver of the OS come up. We never saw this with our old u-boot.
>> If there are no ideas left we will have to bisect the problem.
>
>
> Bisecting was successfull. The commit introducing the problem is
>
> commit ff9d2efdbf1b3b5263f81e843c6724b8bead7f1f
> Author: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Date:   Fri Aug 16 07:59:15 2013 -0700
>
>     lzo: correctly bounds-check output buffer
>
>     This checks the size of the output buffer and fails if it was going to
>     overflow the buffer during lzo decompression.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>     Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
>
> This commit introduced the usage of the dst_len output parameter as
> additional input parameter containing the maximum output buffer size. This
> parameter isn't initialized in cmd_bootm.c:
>
>  454 #ifdef CONFIG_LZO
>  455     case IH_COMP_LZO: {
>  456         size_t size;
>  457
>  458         printf("   Uncompressing %s ... ", type_name);
>  459
>  460         ret = lzop_decompress(image_buf, image_len, load_buf, &size);
>
> Setting size to some big value (SZE_MAX is not avialable) fixed the behavior
> but I am unsure if this is the correct solution. I think its hard to get the
> max output buffer size at this point in cmd_bootm.c.

Does this work?

---
From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: [PATCH] bootm: set max output for LZO

The LZO decompressor wasn't initializing the maximum output size.

Reported-by: Matthias Weißer <weisserm@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 common/cmd_bootm.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Matthias Weisser April 15, 2014, 5:48 a.m. UTC | #1
Am 14.04.2014 17:38, schrieb Kees Cook:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Matthias Weißer <weisserm@arcor.de> wrote:
>> Am 14.04.2014 08:09, schrieb Matthias Weißer:
>>
>>> Hi Wolfgang
>>>
>>> Am 11.04.2014 12:43, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Matthias,
>>>>
>>>> In message <5347BBBC.9000806@arcor.de> you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> we are currently trying to get an out-of-tree board based on 2013.01
>>>>> back in sync with current master and observing a strange behavior which
>>>>> we think is located in the CFI flash system. If we load an image via
>>>>> tftp, copy it to flash and then try to run the image via bootm we see an
>>>>> error while decomressing:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>>     Uncompressing Kernel Image ... LZO: uncompress or overwrite error -5
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure your malloc arena is big enough for LZO?  Try if
>>>> increasing it helps...
>>>
>>>
>>> We increaded it from 4MB to 8MB and the behavior is still the same.
>>>
>>> We also observed a different behavior when tftping the image to RAM and
>>> then directly executing it without copying it to flash. It seems that
>>> the flash device (EN29GL256H) is then in some a mode (maybe auto-select)
>>> which prevents it from normal read operations which doesn't allow the
>>> flash driver of the OS come up. We never saw this with our old u-boot.
>>> If there are no ideas left we will have to bisect the problem.
>>
>>
>> Bisecting was successfull. The commit introducing the problem is
>>
>> commit ff9d2efdbf1b3b5263f81e843c6724b8bead7f1f
>> Author: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>> Date:   Fri Aug 16 07:59:15 2013 -0700
>>
>>     lzo: correctly bounds-check output buffer
>>
>>     This checks the size of the output buffer and fails if it was going to
>>     overflow the buffer during lzo decompression.
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>>     Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
>>
>> This commit introduced the usage of the dst_len output parameter as
>> additional input parameter containing the maximum output buffer size. This
>> parameter isn't initialized in cmd_bootm.c:
>>
>>  454 #ifdef CONFIG_LZO
>>  455     case IH_COMP_LZO: {
>>  456         size_t size;
>>  457
>>  458         printf("   Uncompressing %s ... ", type_name);
>>  459
>>  460         ret = lzop_decompress(image_buf, image_len, load_buf, &size);
>>
>> Setting size to some big value (SZE_MAX is not avialable) fixed the behavior
>> but I am unsure if this is the correct solution. I think its hard to get the
>> max output buffer size at this point in cmd_bootm.c.
>
> Does this work?

Yes. Didn't saw that configuration option. Thanks.

> ---
> From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Subject: [PATCH] bootm: set max output for LZO
>
> The LZO decompressor wasn't initializing the maximum output size.
>
> Reported-by: Matthias Weißer <weisserm@arcor.de>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
>   common/cmd_bootm.c |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/common/cmd_bootm.c b/common/cmd_bootm.c
> index 9751edc..c243a5b 100644
> --- a/common/cmd_bootm.c
> +++ b/common/cmd_bootm.c
> @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ static int bootm_load_os(bootm_headers_t *images,
> unsigned long *load_end,
>   #endif /* CONFIG_LZMA */
>   #ifdef CONFIG_LZO
>          case IH_COMP_LZO: {
> -               size_t size;
> +               size_t size = unc_len;
>
>                  printf("   Uncompressing %s ... ", type_name);
>

Tested-by: Matthias Weißer <weisserm@arcor.de>

Regards
Matthias
Kees Cook April 15, 2014, 5:27 p.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Matthias Weißer <weisserm@arcor.de> wrote:
> Am 14.04.2014 17:38, schrieb Kees Cook:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Matthias Weißer <weisserm@arcor.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 14.04.2014 08:09, schrieb Matthias Weißer:
>>>
>>>> Hi Wolfgang
>>>>
>>>> Am 11.04.2014 12:43, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Matthias,
>>>>>
>>>>> In message <5347BBBC.9000806@arcor.de> you wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> we are currently trying to get an out-of-tree board based on 2013.01
>>>>>> back in sync with current master and observing a strange behavior
>>>>>> which
>>>>>> we think is located in the CFI flash system. If we load an image via
>>>>>> tftp, copy it to flash and then try to run the image via bootm we see
>>>>>> an
>>>>>> error while decomressing:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Uncompressing Kernel Image ... LZO: uncompress or overwrite error
>>>>>> -5
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you sure your malloc arena is big enough for LZO?  Try if
>>>>> increasing it helps...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We increaded it from 4MB to 8MB and the behavior is still the same.
>>>>
>>>> We also observed a different behavior when tftping the image to RAM and
>>>> then directly executing it without copying it to flash. It seems that
>>>> the flash device (EN29GL256H) is then in some a mode (maybe auto-select)
>>>> which prevents it from normal read operations which doesn't allow the
>>>> flash driver of the OS come up. We never saw this with our old u-boot.
>>>> If there are no ideas left we will have to bisect the problem.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bisecting was successfull. The commit introducing the problem is
>>>
>>> commit ff9d2efdbf1b3b5263f81e843c6724b8bead7f1f
>>> Author: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>>> Date:   Fri Aug 16 07:59:15 2013 -0700
>>>
>>>     lzo: correctly bounds-check output buffer
>>>
>>>     This checks the size of the output buffer and fails if it was going
>>> to
>>>     overflow the buffer during lzo decompression.
>>>
>>>     Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>>>     Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
>>>
>>> This commit introduced the usage of the dst_len output parameter as
>>> additional input parameter containing the maximum output buffer size.
>>> This
>>> parameter isn't initialized in cmd_bootm.c:
>>>
>>>  454 #ifdef CONFIG_LZO
>>>  455     case IH_COMP_LZO: {
>>>  456         size_t size;
>>>  457
>>>  458         printf("   Uncompressing %s ... ", type_name);
>>>  459
>>>  460         ret = lzop_decompress(image_buf, image_len, load_buf,
>>> &size);
>>>
>>> Setting size to some big value (SZE_MAX is not avialable) fixed the
>>> behavior
>>> but I am unsure if this is the correct solution. I think its hard to get
>>> the
>>> max output buffer size at this point in cmd_bootm.c.
>>
>>
>> Does this work?
>
>
> Yes. Didn't saw that configuration option. Thanks.
>
>
>> ---
>> From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>> Subject: [PATCH] bootm: set max output for LZO
>>
>> The LZO decompressor wasn't initializing the maximum output size.
>>
>> Reported-by: Matthias Weißer <weisserm@arcor.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>> ---
>>   common/cmd_bootm.c |    2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/common/cmd_bootm.c b/common/cmd_bootm.c
>> index 9751edc..c243a5b 100644
>> --- a/common/cmd_bootm.c
>> +++ b/common/cmd_bootm.c
>> @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ static int bootm_load_os(bootm_headers_t *images,
>> unsigned long *load_end,
>>   #endif /* CONFIG_LZMA */
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_LZO
>>          case IH_COMP_LZO: {
>> -               size_t size;
>> +               size_t size = unc_len;
>>
>>                  printf("   Uncompressing %s ... ", type_name);
>>
>
> Tested-by: Matthias Weißer <weisserm@arcor.de>

Great! Thanks for testing.

Who can commit this patch? LZO is pretty busted at the moment without it. :)

-Kees
Kees Cook April 15, 2014, 5:29 p.m. UTC | #3
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Matthias Weißer <weisserm@arcor.de> wrote:
>> Am 14.04.2014 17:38, schrieb Kees Cook:
>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Matthias Weißer <weisserm@arcor.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Am 14.04.2014 08:09, schrieb Matthias Weißer:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Wolfgang
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 11.04.2014 12:43, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Matthias,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In message <5347BBBC.9000806@arcor.de> you wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> we are currently trying to get an out-of-tree board based on 2013.01
>>>>>>> back in sync with current master and observing a strange behavior
>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>> we think is located in the CFI flash system. If we load an image via
>>>>>>> tftp, copy it to flash and then try to run the image via bootm we see
>>>>>>> an
>>>>>>> error while decomressing:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Uncompressing Kernel Image ... LZO: uncompress or overwrite error
>>>>>>> -5
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you sure your malloc arena is big enough for LZO?  Try if
>>>>>> increasing it helps...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We increaded it from 4MB to 8MB and the behavior is still the same.
>>>>>
>>>>> We also observed a different behavior when tftping the image to RAM and
>>>>> then directly executing it without copying it to flash. It seems that
>>>>> the flash device (EN29GL256H) is then in some a mode (maybe auto-select)
>>>>> which prevents it from normal read operations which doesn't allow the
>>>>> flash driver of the OS come up. We never saw this with our old u-boot.
>>>>> If there are no ideas left we will have to bisect the problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bisecting was successfull. The commit introducing the problem is
>>>>
>>>> commit ff9d2efdbf1b3b5263f81e843c6724b8bead7f1f
>>>> Author: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>>>> Date:   Fri Aug 16 07:59:15 2013 -0700
>>>>
>>>>     lzo: correctly bounds-check output buffer
>>>>
>>>>     This checks the size of the output buffer and fails if it was going
>>>> to
>>>>     overflow the buffer during lzo decompression.
>>>>
>>>>     Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>>>>     Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
>>>>
>>>> This commit introduced the usage of the dst_len output parameter as
>>>> additional input parameter containing the maximum output buffer size.
>>>> This
>>>> parameter isn't initialized in cmd_bootm.c:
>>>>
>>>>  454 #ifdef CONFIG_LZO
>>>>  455     case IH_COMP_LZO: {
>>>>  456         size_t size;
>>>>  457
>>>>  458         printf("   Uncompressing %s ... ", type_name);
>>>>  459
>>>>  460         ret = lzop_decompress(image_buf, image_len, load_buf,
>>>> &size);
>>>>
>>>> Setting size to some big value (SZE_MAX is not avialable) fixed the
>>>> behavior
>>>> but I am unsure if this is the correct solution. I think its hard to get
>>>> the
>>>> max output buffer size at this point in cmd_bootm.c.
>>>
>>>
>>> Does this work?
>>
>>
>> Yes. Didn't saw that configuration option. Thanks.
>>
>>
>>> ---
>>> From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>>> Subject: [PATCH] bootm: set max output for LZO
>>>
>>> The LZO decompressor wasn't initializing the maximum output size.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Matthias Weißer <weisserm@arcor.de>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>>> ---
>>>   common/cmd_bootm.c |    2 +-
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/common/cmd_bootm.c b/common/cmd_bootm.c
>>> index 9751edc..c243a5b 100644
>>> --- a/common/cmd_bootm.c
>>> +++ b/common/cmd_bootm.c
>>> @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ static int bootm_load_os(bootm_headers_t *images,
>>> unsigned long *load_end,
>>>   #endif /* CONFIG_LZMA */
>>>   #ifdef CONFIG_LZO
>>>          case IH_COMP_LZO: {
>>> -               size_t size;
>>> +               size_t size = unc_len;
>>>
>>>                  printf("   Uncompressing %s ... ", type_name);
>>>
>>
>> Tested-by: Matthias Weißer <weisserm@arcor.de>
>
> Great! Thanks for testing.
>
> Who can commit this patch? LZO is pretty busted at the moment without it. :)

Actually, since this is on -users, I'll resend the patch to the devel list...

Thanks!

-Kees
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Patch

diff --git a/common/cmd_bootm.c b/common/cmd_bootm.c
index 9751edc..c243a5b 100644
--- a/common/cmd_bootm.c
+++ b/common/cmd_bootm.c
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@  static int bootm_load_os(bootm_headers_t *images,
unsigned long *load_end,
 #endif /* CONFIG_LZMA */
 #ifdef CONFIG_LZO
        case IH_COMP_LZO: {
-               size_t size;
+               size_t size = unc_len;

                printf("   Uncompressing %s ... ", type_name);