[U-Boot] [PATCH] disk: part_efi: fix regression due to incorrect buffer usage

[Anton Staaf]

Thanks Stephen, sorry Doug.  :)

-Anton

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> wrote:
> Acked-by: Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
>
> ...to be fair though, the regression appears to be caused by a mid-air
> collision of Anton's change (f75dd584cdfe29dfdcfd424bb237b9238cfb8fe4) with
> my change.  His patch was committed on Oct 25th (though authored earlier).
>  When I submitted my patch on the Oct 19th against denx/master, I'm pretty
> sure it was correct.
>
> Thank you for finding / fixing!  :)
>
> -Doug
>
> ---
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
>> Commit deb5ca80275e8cfa74d5680b41204e08a095eca5 "disk: part_efi: fix
>> **pgpt_pte == NULL" modified the code to pass "&gpt_head" to
>> is_gpt_valid() rather than the previous "gpt_head". However, gpt_head
>> is a pointer to the buffer, not the actual buffer, since it was allocated
>> using ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER. This caused is_gpt_valid() to read the
>> disk block onto the stack rather than into the buffer, causing the
>> code to fail.
>>
>> This change reverts that portion of the commit mentioned above.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>> ---
>>  disk/part_efi.c |    4 ++--
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/disk/part_efi.c b/disk/part_efi.c
>> index e7f2714..ddf80a7 100644
>> --- a/disk/part_efi.c
>> +++ b/disk/part_efi.c
>> @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ void print_part_efi(block_dev_desc_t * dev_desc)
>>        }
>>        /* This function validates AND fills in the GPT header and PTE */
>>        if (is_gpt_valid(dev_desc, GPT_PRIMARY_PARTITION_TABLE_LBA,
>> -                        &(gpt_head), &gpt_pte) != 1) {
>> +                        gpt_head, &gpt_pte) != 1) {
>>                printf("%s: *** ERROR: Invalid GPT ***\n", __func__);
>>                return;
>>        }
>> @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ int get_partition_info_efi(block_dev_desc_t * dev_desc,
>> int part,
>>
>>        /* This function validates AND fills in the GPT header and PTE */
>>        if (is_gpt_valid(dev_desc, GPT_PRIMARY_PARTITION_TABLE_LBA,
>> -                       &(gpt_head), &gpt_pte) != 1) {
>> +                       gpt_head, &gpt_pte) != 1) {
>>                printf("%s: *** ERROR: Invalid GPT ***\n", __func__);
>>                return -1;
>>        }
>> --
>> 1.7.0.4
>>
>>
>
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