[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] hw/block: better reporting on pflash backing file mismatch

[Alex Bennée]

It looks like there was going to be code to check we had some sort of
alignment so lets replace it with an actual check. This is a bit more
useful than the enigmatic "failed to read the initial flash content"
when we attempt to read the number of bytes the device should have.

This is a potential confusing stumbling block when you move from using
-bios to using -drive if=pflash,file=blob,format=raw,readonly for
loading your firmware code. To mitigate that we automatically pad in
the read-only case and warn the user when we have performed magic to
enable things to Just Work (tm).

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden>

---
v3
  - tweak commit title/commentary
  - use total_len instead of device_len for checks
  - if the device is read-only do the padding for them
  - accept baking_len > total_len (how to warn_report with NULL *errp?)
v4
  - error check blk_getlength
  - optimise memset and use NOR erase pattern
  - restore singular device (overly confusing)
  - add warn_report for when we do magic
v5
  - remove mention of null padding
  - use %zu for size_t fmt string
  - add Laszlo r-b
---
 hw/block/pflash_cfi01.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/block/pflash_cfi01.c b/hw/block/pflash_cfi01.c
index 9d1c356eb6..d8cfa4789a 100644
--- a/hw/block/pflash_cfi01.c
+++ b/hw/block/pflash_cfi01.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 #include "qemu/bitops.h"
 #include "qemu/host-utils.h"
 #include "qemu/log.h"
+#include "qemu/error-report.h"
 #include "hw/sysbus.h"
 #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
 #include "trace.h"
@@ -730,13 +731,6 @@ static void pflash_cfi01_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error 
**errp)
     }
     device_len = sector_len_per_device * blocks_per_device;
 
-    /* XXX: to be fixed */
-#if 0
-    if (total_len != (8 * 1024 * 1024) && total_len != (16 * 1024 * 1024) &&
-        total_len != (32 * 1024 * 1024) && total_len != (64 * 1024 * 1024))
-        return NULL;
-#endif
-
     memory_region_init_rom_device(
         &pfl->mem, OBJECT(dev),
         &pflash_cfi01_ops,
@@ -763,6 +757,38 @@ static void pflash_cfi01_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error 
**errp)
     }
 
     if (pfl->blk) {
+        /*
+         * Validate the backing store is the right size for pflash
+         * devices. It should be padded to a multiple of the flash
+         * block size. If the device is read-only we can elide the
+         * check and just pad the region first. If the user supplies a
+         * larger file we ignore the tail.
+         */
+        int64_t backing_len = blk_getlength(pfl->blk);
+        if (backing_len < 0) {
+            error_setg(errp, "unable to check size of backing file");
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (backing_len < total_len) {
+            if (pfl->ro) {
+                size_t pad_bytes = total_len - backing_len;
+                /* pad with NOR erase pattern */
+                memset((uint8_t*)pfl->storage + backing_len, 0xff, pad_bytes);
+                warn_report("device needs %" PRIu64
+                            " bytes, padded with %zu 0xff bytes",
+                            total_len, pad_bytes);
+                total_len = backing_len;
+            } else {
+                error_setg(errp, "device needs %" PRIu64 " bytes, "
+                           "backing file provides only %" PRIu64 " bytes",
+                           total_len, backing_len);
+                return;
+            }
+        } else if (backing_len > total_len) {
+            warn_report("device needs %" PRIu64 " bytes, rest ignored", 
total_len);
+        }
+
         /* read the initial flash content */
         ret = blk_pread(pfl->blk, 0, pfl->storage, total_len);
 
-- 
2.20.1