[U-Boot] [PATCH] part_dos: fix crash with big sector size

Sergei Shtylyov sshtylyov at mvista.com
Tue Jul 26 20:57:33 CEST 2011


Hello.

I wrote:

> Apple iPod nanos have sector sizes of 2 or 4 KiB, which crashes U-Boot when it
> tries to read the MBR into 512-byte buffer situated on stack. Instead use the
> variable length arrays to be safe with any large sector size.

> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com>

> ---
> The same change is probably needed for disk/part_amiga.c but I'm not really
> sure if Amiga supports USB... :-)

    Damn, the FAT code is also hardwired for 512-byte sectors. I wonder which 
century we are in? :-)

WBR, Sergei


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