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From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/5 V2] NAND: Make page, erase, oob size available via cmd_nand
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:04:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109272304.03365.marek.vasut@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8237E4.9020305@freescale.com>

On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:53:56 PM Scott Wood wrote:
> On 09/27/2011 03:07 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 09:51:09 PM Scott Wood wrote:
> >> On 09/27/2011 02:38 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 09:01:53 PM Scott Wood wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:57:26AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>>>> +	/* Set geometry info */
> >>>>> +	memset(buf, 0, bufsz);
> >>>>> +	sprintf(buf, "%x", nand->writesize);
> >>>>> +	setenv("nand_writesize", buf);
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +	memset(buf, 0, bufsz);
> >>>>> +	sprintf(buf, "%x", nand->oobsize);
> >>>>> +	setenv("nand_oobsize", buf);
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +	memset(buf, 0, bufsz);
> >>>>> +	sprintf(buf, "%x", nand->erasesize);
> >>>>> +	setenv("nand_erasesize", buf);
> >>>> 
> >>>> Why the memsets?
> >>> 
> >>> To clear the memory from previous usage ?
> >> 
> >> What part of the previous usage will both survive the sprintf() and be
> >> looked at by setenv()?
> > 
> > The part of data that are copied in _do_set_env() ?
> 
> I don't see _do_set_env anywhere -- what tree are you looking at?
> 
> In any case, sprintf() produces a zero-terminated string.  setenv()
> consumes a zero-terminated string.

Correct

> setenv() doesn't even know that the
> buffer containing the string happens to be 32 bytes, much less have any
> business poking around in that area.

True ... but the stuff you call setenv() on is copied to environment. That's 
about it, it doesn't get lost anywhere.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-27 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-12  4:04 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5 V2] Random NAND fixes and improvements Marek Vasut
2011-09-12  4:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] NAND: Really ignore bad blocks when scrubbing Marek Vasut
2011-09-27 18:54   ` Scott Wood
2011-09-12  4:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5] NAND: Add nand read.raw and write.raw commands Marek Vasut
2011-09-21 18:48   ` Scott Wood
2011-09-22  1:55   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5 V2] " Marek Vasut
2011-09-22 16:03     ` Scott Wood
2011-09-22 18:36     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5 V3] " Marek Vasut
2011-09-22 18:40       ` Scott Wood
2011-09-23 13:43       ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5 V4] " Marek Vasut
2011-09-27 18:57         ` Scott Wood
2011-09-12  4:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/5] NAND: Allow per-buffer allocation Marek Vasut
2011-09-21 18:50   ` Scott Wood
2011-09-21 19:49     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-21 19:55       ` Scott Wood
2011-09-21 20:16         ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-22  1:34           ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-22  7:41           ` Stefano Babic
2011-09-22  8:51             ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-23 17:35               ` Scott Wood
2011-09-24 12:37                 ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-26 18:33                   ` Scott Wood
2011-09-26 18:49                     ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-12  4:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/5] NAND: Make page, erase, oob size available via cmd_nand Marek Vasut
2011-09-21 18:55   ` Scott Wood
2011-09-21 19:52     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-22  1:57   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/5 V2] " Marek Vasut
2011-09-27 19:01     ` Scott Wood
2011-09-27 19:38       ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-27 19:51         ` Scott Wood
2011-09-27 20:07           ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-27 20:53             ` Scott Wood
2011-09-27 21:04               ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2011-09-27 21:14     ` Scott Wood
2011-09-12  4:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] NAND: Add scrub.quiet command option Marek Vasut
2011-09-12 16:45   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-09-12 17:45     ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-12 18:06       ` Scott Wood
2011-09-12 18:24         ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-12 18:31           ` Scott Wood
2011-09-12 18:36             ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-12 19:19               ` Scott Wood
2011-09-12 19:28                 ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-12 19:36                   ` Scott Wood
2011-09-12 19:42                     ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-12 23:24                       ` Scott Wood
2011-09-13  1:02                         ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-13  4:25                           ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-13  4:36                             ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-13 22:22                           ` Scott Wood
2011-09-13 22:41                             ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-13 22:53                               ` Scott Wood
2011-09-12 18:37       ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-12 18:50         ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-12 20:33       ` Mike Frysinger
2011-09-12 22:59         ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-13 22:20   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] NAND: Add -y option to nand scrub command Marek Vasut
2011-09-13 22:28     ` Mike Frysinger
2011-09-27 19:03     ` Scott Wood

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