[PATCH] env: Fix warning when forcing environment without ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE

Tom Rini
2021-01-15T18:43:44Z

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 11:27:20AM +0100, Martin Fuzzey wrote:

> Since commit 0f036bf4b87e ("env: Warn on force access if ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE set")
> a warning message is displayed when setenv -f is used WITHOUT
> CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE, but the variable is set anyway, resulting
> in lots of log pollution.
>
> env_flags_validate() returns 0 if the access is accepted, or non zero
> if it is refused.
>
> So the original code
> #ifndef CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
> if (flag & H_FORCE)
> return 0;
> #endif
>
> was correct, it returns 0 (accepts the modification) if forced UNLESS
> IGNORE_FORCE is set (in which case access checks in the following code
> are applied). The broken patch just added a printf to the force accepted
> case.
>
> To obtain the intent of the patch we need this:
> if (flag & H_FORCE) {
> #ifdef CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
> printf("## Error: Can't force access to \"%s\"\n", name);
> #else
> return 0;
> #endif
> }
>
> Fixes: 0f036bf4b87e ("env: Warn on force access if ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE set")
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Fuzzey <martin.fuzzey@flowbird.group>
> ---
> env/flags.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/env/flags.c b/env/flags.c
> index df4aed2..e3e833c 100644
> --- a/env/flags.c
> +++ b/env/flags.c
> @@ -563,12 +563,13 @@ int env_flags_validate(const struct env_entry *item, const char *newval,
> return 1;
> #endif
>
> -#ifndef CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
> if (flag & H_FORCE) {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
> printf("## Error: Can't force access to \"%s\"\n", name);
> +#else
> return 0;
> - }
> #endif
> + }
> switch (op) {
> case env_op_delete:
> if (item->flags & ENV_FLAGS_VARACCESS_PREVENT_DELETE) {

Marek, does this look right to you? Heinrich, I think this means
there''s a follow-up commit that I made to one of the tests that can
probably be reverted as well? Thanks for digging in to this Martin!

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Tom
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