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From: Pierre AUBERT
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:14:16 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] env export fix: compute the CRC on the
real lenght of the exported variables.
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Dear Tom Rini
Le 26/02/2014 21:02, Tom Rini a ?crit :
> [ Catching up on some old emails ]
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 08:20:09AM +0100, Pierre AUBERT wrote:
>> Dear Wolfgang Denk,
>>
>> Le 14/11/2013 18:24, Wolfgang Denk a ?crit :
>>> Dear Pierre Aubert,
>>>
>>> In message <1384434720-11214-3-git-send-email-p.aubert@staubli.com> you wrote:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Pierre Aubert
>>>> ---
>>>> common/cmd_nvedit.c | 5 +++--
>>>> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/common/cmd_nvedit.c b/common/cmd_nvedit.c
>>>> index 5bcc324..c32a932 100644
>>>> --- a/common/cmd_nvedit.c
>>>> +++ b/common/cmd_nvedit.c
>>>> @@ -922,14 +922,15 @@ NXTARG: ;
>>>> len = hexport_r(&env_htab, '\0',
>>>> H_MATCH_KEY | H_MATCH_IDENT,
>>>> - &res, ENV_SIZE, argc, argv);
>>>> + &res, size, argc, argv);
>>>> +
>>>> if (len < 0) {
>>>> error("Cannot export environment: errno = %d\n", errno);
>>>> return 1;
>>>> }
>>>> if (chk) {
>>>> - envp->crc = crc32(0, envp->data, ENV_SIZE);
>>>> + envp->crc = crc32(0, envp->data, len);
>>> This is not correct. When exporting with CRC, then the CRC
>>> computation should be the same as is done with the persistently
>>> stored environment, i. e. it should be taken over ENV_SIZE bytes.
>> In this case, there's an inconstisency between the export and the
>> import. It isn't possible to export some variables and the reimport
>> them:
>> U-Boot > env export -c
>> U-Boot > env import -c fails with a CRC error.
>> The import computes the CRC on the real lenght of the environment
>> variables. IMO, as the import and the export are done to work
>> together, it seems to me that the export should compute its CRC on
>> the real lenght.
> But env import -c $filesize does work as the export sets
> filesize.
>
You're right, but my purpose wasn't to export and reimport immediatly
the same environment.
I thought it was more logical to have the same behaviour between
"sister" functions.
Best regards