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Commit 96e17523 authored by Alexander Zangerl's avatar Alexander Zangerl Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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iio: pressure: ms5611: ms5611_prom_is_valid false negative bug



commit fd39d966 upstream.

The ms5611 driver falsely rejects lots of MS5607-02BA03-50 chips
with "PROM integrity check failed" because it doesn't accept a prom crc
value of zero as legitimate.

According to the datasheet for this chip (and the manufacturer's
application note about the PROM CRC), none of the possible values for the
CRC are excluded - but the current code in ms5611_prom_is_valid() ends with

return crc_orig != 0x0000 && crc == crc_orig

Discussed with the driver author (Tomasz Duszynski) and he indicated that
at that time (2015) he was dealing with some faulty chip samples which
returned blank data under some circumstances and/or followed example code
which indicated CRC zero being bad.

As far as I can tell this exception should not be applied anymore; We've
got a few hundred custom boards here with this chip where large numbers
of the prom have a legitimate CRC value 0, and do work fine, but which the
current driver code wrongly rejects.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Zangerl <az@breathe-safe.com>
Fixes: c0644160 ("iio: pressure: add support for MS5611 pressure and temperature sensor")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2535-1695168070.831792@Ze3y.dhYT.s3fx


Cc: <Stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent a934a1a2
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