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From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
To: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Cc: richard@nod.at, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, vigneshr@ti.com,
	Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>,
	rminnich@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: parser: cmdline: Fix parsing of part-names with colons
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:57:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201123095720.286cb4ad@collabora.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201123093814.1c24dd25@xps13>

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:38:14 +0100
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:

> Hi Sven,
> 
> Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> wrote on Sun, 22 Nov 2020 01:15:33
> +0100:
> 
> > Some devices (especially QCA ones) are already using hardcoded partition
> > names with colons in it. The OpenMesh A62 for example provides following
> > mtd relevant information via cmdline:
> > 
> >   root=31:11 mtdparts=spi0.0:256k(0:SBL1),128k(0:MIBIB),384k(0:QSEE),64k(0:CDT),64k(0:DDRPARAMS),64k(0:APPSBLENV),512k(0:APPSBL),64k(0:ART),64k(custom),64k(0:KEYS),0x002b0000(kernel),0x00c80000(rootfs),15552k(inactive) rootfsname=rootfs rootwait
> > 
> > The change to split only on the last colon between mtd-id and partitions
> > will cause newpart to see following string for the first partition:
> > 
> >   KEYS),0x002b0000(kernel),0x00c80000(rootfs),15552k(inactive)
> > 
> > Such a partition list cannot be parsed and thus the device fails to boot.
> > 
> > Avoid this behavior by making sure that the start of the first part-name
> > ("(") will also be the last byte the mtd-id split algorithm is using for
> > its colon search.  

Sounds reasonable to me. Note that it works until people start using
parens in their MTD name, so let's hope nobody does that :D. We should
really rework the mtdpart parsing code to make it more robust (do
context based parsing instead of this simple 'strchr()' solution).

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-22  0:15 [PATCH] mtd: parser: cmdline: Fix parsing of part-names with colons Sven Eckelmann
2020-11-23  8:38 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-11-23  8:57   ` Boris Brezillon [this message]

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