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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] cmd_sf: Fix problem with "sf update" and unaligned length
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:17:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150112071719.055CB38005C@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420810762-10712-1-git-send-email-sr@denx.de>

Dear Stefan,

In message <1420810762-10712-1-git-send-email-sr@denx.de> you wrote:
>
> The new code is even simpler and copies the source data into the temp
> buffer and now uses the temp buffer to write the complete sector. So
> only one SPI sector write is used now instead of 2 in the old version.
...

>  	if (len != flash->sector_size) {
> -		/* Rewrite the original data to the end of the sector */
> -		if (spi_flash_write(flash, offset + len,
> -				    flash->sector_size - len, &cmp_buf[len]))
> -			return "write";
> +		memcpy(cmp_buf, buf, len);
> +		ptr = cmp_buf;
>  	}

Should we add a  memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf))  before the memcpy() to
prevent information from earlier activities to leak?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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I read part of it all the way through.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-12  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-09 13:39 [U-Boot] [PATCH] cmd_sf: Fix problem with "sf update" and unaligned length Stefan Roese
2015-01-12  7:17 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2015-01-12  7:27   ` Stefan Roese
2015-01-12  8:07     ` Gerlando Falauto
2015-01-12 21:12       ` Wolfgang Denk
2015-01-12 21:10     ` Wolfgang Denk
2015-01-13  6:05       ` Stefan Roese
2015-04-22 11:11         ` Jagan Teki
2015-04-22 11:15           ` Stefan Roese
2015-04-22 11:26             ` Jagan Teki
2015-01-12  7:51 ` Gerlando Falauto
2015-01-12  7:56   ` Stefan Roese
2015-01-12  8:12     ` Gerlando Falauto

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