[U-Boot] fat: Handle moved FAT32 root directory
Benoît Thébaudeau
benoit.thebaudeau at advansee.com
Mon Oct 22 01:25:30 CEST 2012
Dear Romain Izard,
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:36:08 -0000, Romain Izard wrote:
> The default location of the root directory in a FAT32 partition is the
> same as its location in a FAT12/16 partition. But a difference is that
> in FAT32, it is possible for the root directory to move.
>
> This fix ensures that the parsing uses the root directory location
> stored in the PBR, instead of always using the default location.
>
> Signed-off-by: Romain Izard <romain.izard.pro at gmail.com>
>
> ---
> fs/fat/fat.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/fat/fat.c b/fs/fat/fat.c
> index c450bf6..22d34d3 100644
> --- a/fs/fat/fat.c
> +++ b/fs/fat/fat.c
> @@ -798,6 +798,8 @@ do_fat_read (const char *filename, void *buffer, unsigned long maxsize,
> if (mydata->fatsize == 32) {
> mydata->data_begin = mydata->rootdir_sect -
> (mydata->clust_size * 2);
> + cursect = mydata->data_begin +
> + (root_cluster * mydata->clust_size);
> } else {
> rootdir_size = ((bs.dir_entries[1] * (int)256 +
> bs.dir_entries[0]) *
>
Good find!
However, I don't think that hacking cursect is an appropriate fix.
mydata->rootdir_sect should be fixed instead in the first place because:
- it's cleaner,
- mydata->rootdir_sect is used in a debug trace after that,
- mydata->rootdir_sect is used by get_cluster(), and .. entries must give a 0
start cluster for the root directory, even on FAT32.
By the way, while reviewing the FAT code, I noticed that it must have the
following bugs:
- .. will be an issue in some way, especially if they reach the root folder on
FAT12 or FAT16,
- VFAT long file names will be broken if their entries cross the
PREFETCH_BLOCKS barrier on FAT12/16,
- do_fat_write() is also broken by the bug that you want to fix.
Also, do_fat_write() duplicates a lot of init code from do_fat_read_at(). A
common function could be created from that to init a mydata (fsdata) structure
from read_bootsectandvi().
So your patch could be changed to the following series:
1. Factorize do_fat_read_at() and do_fat_write() init (no change of behavior).
2. Fix this init by fixing mydata->rootdir_sect.
The other issues that I mentioned are unrelated to your patch and should be
verified and addressed separately.
Best regards,
Benoît
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