powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge
authorPan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 10 Dec 2015 07:30:02 +0000 (15:30 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:14:01 +0000 (04:14 -0600)
commit 11b7e154b132232535befe51c55db048069c8461 upstream.

When we merge two contiguous partitions whose signatures are marked
NVRAM_SIG_FREE, We need update prev's length and checksum, then write it
to nvram, not cur's. So lets fix this mistake now.

Also use memset instead of strncpy to set the partition's name. It's
more readable if we want to fill up with duplicate chars .

Fixes: fa2b4e54d41f ("powerpc/nvram: Improve partition removal")
Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c

index 32e26526f7e4e0fc5d22adda109bb075a044ae70..1eb698f653b4c0e060963f1d8308c359cd2f4a06 100644 (file)
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ int __init nvram_remove_partition(const char *name, int sig,
 
                /* Make partition a free partition */
                part->header.signature = NVRAM_SIG_FREE;
-               strncpy(part->header.name, "wwwwwwwwwwww", 12);
+               memset(part->header.name, 'w', 12);
                part->header.checksum = nvram_checksum(&part->header);
                rc = nvram_write_header(part);
                if (rc <= 0) {
@@ -987,8 +987,8 @@ int __init nvram_remove_partition(const char *name, int sig,
                }
                if (prev) {
                        prev->header.length += part->header.length;
-                       prev->header.checksum = nvram_checksum(&part->header);
-                       rc = nvram_write_header(part);
+                       prev->header.checksum = nvram_checksum(&prev->header);
+                       rc = nvram_write_header(prev);
                        if (rc <= 0) {
                                printk(KERN_ERR "nvram_remove_partition: nvram_write failed (%d)\n", rc);
                                return rc;