[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] fs/fat/fat_write: Fix buffer alignments

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 03:45:28PM +0200, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote:

> set_cluster() was using a temporary buffer without enforcing its
> alignment for DMA and cache. Moreover, it did not check the alignment of
> the passed buffer, which can come directly from applicative code or from
> the user.
> 
> This could cause random data corruption, which has been observed on
> i.MX25 writing to an SD card.
> 
> Fix this by only passing ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN-aligned buffers to
> disk_write(), which requires the introduction of a buffer bouncing
> mechanism for the misaligned buffers passed to set_cluster().
> 
> By the way, improve the handling of the corresponding return values from
> disk_write():
>  - print them with debug() in case of error,
>  - consider that there is an error is disk_write() returns a smaller
>    block count than the requested one, not only if its return value is
>    negative.
> 
> After this change, set_cluster() and get_cluster() are almost
> symmetrical.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit at wsystem.com>

OK.  I know Stephen has a series to replace all of the FAT code for
the next release once some performance issues are addressed.  But I'm
inclined to take this series (after some reviews and so forth) for this
release at least because this sounds like some bad bugs and more things
are starting to rely on fatwrite functionality (for example, env saved
as a file in FAT is getting common on community-style boards).

-- 
Tom
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