wrong count argument to erase()
Giorgio
giorgio.nicole at arcor.de
Sat Apr 16 12:15:04 PDT 2016
Hi,
I'm using barebox on an embedded system with an imx6 cpu, a nor and
a nand flash.
I recently updated the barebox to v2016.04.0 and noticed that the
command 'saveenv' was surprisingly quick and actually didn't work.
After a bit of debugging I could track the problem down to a call to the
function erase() within 'common/environment.c':
int envfs_save(const char *filename, const char *dirname, unsigned flags)
{
...
ret = erase(envfd, ~0, 0);
/* ENOSYS and EOPNOTSUPP aren't errors here, many devices don't need it */
if (ret && errno != ENOSYS && errno != EOPNOTSUPP) {
printf("could not erase %s: %s\n", filename, errno_str());
goto out;
}
...
The function prototype is:
int erase(int fd, loff_t count, loff_t offset)
in particular the second argument, count, is a signed long long.
Now when calling erase() with a count of ~0 the function will cast it
to -1 instead of to a 'very big' number and actually never erase
anything.
I think in these cases it is better to use cpp macros like LLONG_MAX
or change the type of count to a size_t.
giorgio
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