[PATCH] globalvar: Fix value of new globalvar when nvvar exists

Ian Abbott abbotti at mev.co.uk
Tue May 9 02:43:32 PDT 2017


On 08/05/17 19:10, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> When a new globalvar with a value is created and the corresponding
> nvvar exists, then the globalvar gets the value of the nvvar, not
> from the newly assigned value as expected.
>
> nv quux=foo; global quux=bar; echo ${global.quux}
>
> Should give "bar", not "foo". Fix this.
>
> Reported-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  common/globalvar.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/common/globalvar.c b/common/globalvar.c
> index c48e7df067..c528b24062 100644
> --- a/common/globalvar.c
> +++ b/common/globalvar.c
> @@ -403,11 +403,11 @@ int globalvar_add_simple(const char *name, const char *value)
>  			return PTR_ERR(param);
>  	}
>
> +	globalvar_nv_sync(name);
> +
>  	if (value)
>  		dev_set_param(&global_device, name, value);
>
> -	globalvar_nv_sync(name);
> -
>  	return 0;
>  }

This seems to work.  Thanks.

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