[PATCH] env: increment redund flag on read fail
Tom Rini
trini at konsulko.com
Mon Feb 1 21:54:46 CET 2021
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 05:19:18PM -0600, Brandon Maier wrote:
> If one of the reads fails when importing redundant environments (a
> single read failure), the env_flags wouldn't get initialized in
> env_import_redund(). If a user then calls saveenv, the new environment
> will have the wrong flags value. So on the next load the new environment
> will be ignored.
>
> While debugging this, I also noticed that env/sf.c was not correctly
> handling a single read failure, as it would not check the crc before
> assigning it to gd->env_addr.
>
> Having a special error path for when there is a single read failure
> seems unnecessary and may lead to future bugs. Instead collapse the
> 'single read failure' error to be the same as a 'single crc failure'.
> That way env_check_redund() either passes or fails, and if it passes we
> are guaranteed to have checked the CRC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brandon Maier <brandon.maier at rockwellcollins.com>
> CC: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
> CC: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> CC: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
Sorry for the delay. Looking this over, yes, I think this is correct
so:
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
And I'm going to give Joe or Wolfgang or Heiko a little more time to
chime in before I apply this in time for v2021.04-rc2.
--
Tom
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