U-Boot v2026.01 introduced drivers/mtd/nand/spi/otp.c which adds `spinand_user_otp_size()` and
`spinand_fact_otp_size()`. These functions are called unconditionally from `spinand_init()` in
drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c to determine whether to set up OTP methods:
if (spinand_user_otp_size(spinand) || spinand_fact_otp_size(spinand)) {
ret = spinand_set_mtd_otp_ops(spinand); /* drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c:2369 */
...
}
Both OTP size functions pass `&spinand->user_otp->layout` or `&spinand->fact_otp->layout` to
`spinand_otp_size()` without first checking whether the pointer is NULL. In the standard probing
path, these pointers are assigned by `spinand_match_and_init()` from the per-chip `spinand_info`
table. `100-21-mtd-spi-nand-add-CASN-page-support.patch` adds CASN detection to `spinand_detect()`
so that when a CASN page is found, `spinand_init_via_casn()` is called instead of
`spinand_id_detect()`. As `spinand_match_and_init()` is only called via `spinand_id_detect()`, it
is never invoked for CASN-probed devices.
As a result, `spinand->user_otp` and `spinand->fact_otp` remain NULL from the zero-initialised DM
priv allocation. Both `spinand_user_otp_size()` and `spinand_fact_otp_size()` spuriously return
non-zero by reading `layout->npages` from a small mapped address computed from their respective
NULL pointer, causing `spinand_init()` to call `spinand_set_mtd_otp_ops()` which reads
`spinand->user_otp->ops` and thereby silently assigns a garbage value to `user_ops` that is then
dereferenced at `if (user_ops->info)`.
int spinand_set_mtd_otp_ops(struct spinand_device *spinand)
{
struct mtd_info *mtd = spinand_to_mtd(spinand);
const struct spinand_fact_otp_ops *fact_ops = spinand->fact_otp->ops;
const struct spinand_user_otp_ops *user_ops = spinand->user_otp->ops;
...
if (user_ops) {
if (user_ops->info) /* drivers/mtd/nand/spi/otp.c:343 */
...
...
}
...
}
On COMFAST CF-WR632AX (MT7981, Winbond W25N01GV) this results in a "Synchronous Abort" during boot.
The crash was confirmed via `addr2line` on the U-Boot ELF:
"Synchronous Abort" handler, esr 0x96000004, far 0xeafffffeeafffffe
elr: 0000000041e2ff44 (drivers/mtd/nand/spi/otp.c:343)
lr : 0000000041e2f2f8 (drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c:2369)
The same was observed on Acer Predator Connect W6x (MT7986, Winbond W25N02KV):
"Synchronous Abort" handler, esr 0x96000004, far 0xeafffffeeafffffe
elr: 0000000041e2c868 (drivers/mtd/nand/spi/otp.c:343)
lr : 0000000041e2bc1c (drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c:2369)
Fix this by adding NULL guards to both OTP size functions so that they return 0 when the pointer is
NULL. With both functions returning 0, the condition in `spinand_init()` evaluates to false and
`spinand_set_mtd_otp_ops()` is never called, skipping setup of OTP methods entirely for CASN-probed
SPI NAND chips.
This change has no effect on SPI NAND chips that do have OTP data but not CASN. For those chips,
`spinand_match_and_init()` sets `spinand->user_otp` and `spinand->fact_otp` to non-NULL values from
the per-chip table, the NULL guard does not activate, and the existing behaviour is unchanged.
Fixes: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/23430
Fixes: b94de14baf ("uboot-mediatek: update to v2026.01")
Signed-off-by: Ryan Leung <untilscour@protonmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/23447
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
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