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

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Jul 27 23:41:39 CEST 2011


Dear Sergei Shtylyov,

In message <201106032337.43523.sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com> you 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... :-)
> 
>  disk/part_dos.c |    6 +++---
>  disk/part_dos.h |    7 -------
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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