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Lech Perczak c55aaa7c9a ath79: generic: disable SPI-NOR write protect unconditionally
Kernel 5.15 introduced a significant change to spi-nor subsystem [1],
which would the SPI-NOR core to no longer unprotect the Flash chips if
their protection bits are non-volatile, which is the case for MX25L6405D
and MX25L12805D, used in Ubiquiti XW and WA lines of devices [2].

However, their bootloader forcibly enables this protection before
continuing to boot, making the kernel not unprotect the flash upon boot,
causing JFFS2 to be unable write to the filesystem. Because sysupgrade
seems to unlock the flash explicitly, the upgrade will work, but the
system will be unable to save configrationm showing the following symptom
in the kernel log:

[   86.168016] jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): End of filesystem marker found at 0x0
[   86.192344] jffs2_build_filesystem(): unlocking the mtd device...
[   86.192443] done.
[   86.200669] jffs2_build_filesystem(): erasing all blocks after the end marker...
[   86.220646] jffs2: Newly-erased block contained word 0x19852003 at offset 0x001e0000
[   86.292388] jffs2: Newly-erased block contained word 0x19852003 at offset 0x001d0000
[   86.324867] jffs2: Newly-erased block contained word 0x19852003 at offset 0x001c0000
[   86.355316] jffs2: Newly-erased block contained word 0x19852003 at offset 0x001b0000
[   86.402855] jffs2: Newly-erased block contained word 0x19852003 at offset 0x001a0000

Disable the write protection unconditionally for ath79/generic subtarget,
so the XW and WA devices can function again. However, this is only a
stopgap solution - it probably should be investigated if there is a way
to selectively unlock the area used by rootfs_data - but given the lock
granularity, this seems unlikely.

With this patch in place, rootfs_data partition on my Nanostation Loco
M5 XW is writable again.

Fixes: #12882
Fixes: #13750
Fixes: 579703f38c ("ath79: switch to 5.15 as default kernel")
Link: http://www.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2020-October/082805.html
Link: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/powerbeam-m5-xw-configuration-loss-after-reboot/141925
Signed-off-by: Lech Perczak <lech.perczak@gmail.com>

(cherry picked from commit f024f4b1b0)
Signed-off-by: Lech Perczak <lech.perczak@gmail.com>
2024-01-25 19:16:15 +01:00
.github ci: add workflow for automated GitHub release 2023-11-02 14:44:49 +00:00
config build: add CycloneDX SBOM JSON support 2023-11-02 14:44:47 +00:00
include kernel: bump 5.15 to 5.15.147 2024-01-21 12:51:29 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: include all used licenses in LICENSES directory 2021-02-14 19:21:38 +01:00
package jsonfilter: update to Git HEAD (2024-01-23) 2024-01-23 09:09:45 +01:00
scripts scripts: sercomm-pid.py: use uppercase hwid in pid 2023-11-27 02:02:35 +01:00
target ath79: generic: disable SPI-NOR write protect unconditionally 2024-01-25 19:16:15 +01:00
toolchain toolchain: glibc: Update glibc 2.37 to recent HEAD 2023-10-08 14:14:50 +02:00
tools firmware-utils: move patch to maintaince branch 2024-01-07 12:54:06 +01:00
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BSDmakefile build: use SPDX license tags 2021-02-05 14:54:47 +01:00
Config.in build: scripts/config - update to kconfig-v5.14 2022-02-19 13:10:01 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: add COPYING file to specify project licenses 2021-02-14 19:21:38 +01:00
feeds.conf.default OpenWrt v23.05.2: revert to branch defaults 2023-11-15 00:00:58 +01:00
Makefile build: fix pkg-config detection when inside of a nix-shell 2023-11-02 22:40:40 +01:00
README.md README: add download section 2022-10-06 16:08:24 +02:00
rules.mk treewide: add ORIG_PATH variable 2023-06-12 22:10:20 +02:00

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