[PATCH] partitions: dos: improve guess of disk size
Uwe Kleine-König
u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Nov 7 19:50:37 EST 2013
On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 01:16:31AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The code used to ineffectively take the end of the last partition as guess
> for the disk size. Better use the end of the partition that has its end
> rearmost.
>
> Also return an unsigned type instead of int as the result is always
> non-negative.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> ---
> Hello,
>
> note this is only compile tested.
... and the introduced warning ignored. I really shouldn't send patches
out that late ...
see below
> --- a/common/partitions/dos.c
> +++ b/common/partitions/dos.c
> @@ -27,19 +27,23 @@
> * @param table partition table
> * @return sector count
> */
> -static int disk_guess_size(struct device_d *dev, struct partition_entry *table)
> +static uint64_t disk_guess_size(struct device_d *dev,
> + struct partition_entry *table)
> {
> uint64_t size = 0;
> int i;
>
> for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
> - if (table[i].partition_start != 0) {
> - size += get_unaligned_le32(&table[i].partition_start) - size;
> - size += get_unaligned_le32(&table[i].partition_size);
> + if (get_unaligned_le32(table[i].partition_start) != 0) {
There is an & missing before table.
Best regards
Uwe
> + uint64_t part_end = get_unaligned_le32(&table[i].partition_start) +
> + get_unaligned_le32(&table[i].partition_size);
> +
> + if (size < part_end)
> + size = part_end;
> }
> }
>
> - return (int)size;
> + return size;
> }
>
> static void *read_mbr(struct block_device *blk)
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