From: "Benoît Thébaudeau" <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] disk: initialize name/part fields when returning a whole disk
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:43:29 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <231079823.6559136.1349894609793.JavaMail.root@advansee.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349891871-31062-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 7:57:51 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> When get_device_and_partition() finds a disk without a partition
> table,
> under some conditions, it "returns" a disk_partition_t that describes
> the entire raw disk. Make sure to initialize all fields in the
> partition
> descriptor in that case.
>
> The value chosen for name is just some arbitrary descriptive string.
>
> The value chosen for info matches the check at the end of
> get_device_and_partition(). However, it's probably not that
> important;
> it's not obvious that the value is really used.
>
> Reported-by: Beno?t Th?baudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> ---
> Tom, this is technically a bug, so putting in the release might make
> sense, although I doubt it has much practical impact, so deferring it
> into u-boot/next would probably be just as good.
>
> disk/part.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/disk/part.c b/disk/part.c
> index a0c77dd..8ba3cde 100644
> --- a/disk/part.c
> +++ b/disk/part.c
> @@ -561,6 +561,8 @@ int get_device_and_partition(const char *ifname,
> const char *dev_part_str,
> info->size = (*dev_desc)->lba;
> info->blksz = (*dev_desc)->blksz;
> info->bootable = 0;
> + strcpy((char *)info->type, BOOT_PART_TYPE);
> + strcpy((char *)info->name, "Whole Disk");
> #ifdef CONFIG_PARTITION_UUIDS
> info->uuid[0] = 0;
> #endif
Reviewed-by: Beno?t Th?baudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
Best regards,
Beno?t
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-10 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-10 17:57 [U-Boot] [PATCH] disk: initialize name/part fields when returning a whole disk Stephen Warren
2012-10-10 18:43 ` Benoît Thébaudeau [this message]
2012-10-20 17:40 ` Tom Rini
2012-10-20 17:40 ` [U-Boot] " Tom Rini
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