[PATCH] fastboot: sparse: print descriptive error on overflowing destination

Sascha Hauer sha at pengutronix.de
Tue Dec 12 22:49:16 PST 2023


On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 03:06:30PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> Fastboot flash of both regular files and barebox update handlers will
> print a message if the file being written doesn't fit the destination:
> 
>   barebox update:  "Image (%zd) is too big for device (%lld)\n"
>   fastboot:        "write: No space left on device\n"
> 
> With sparse images however, not the write will fail, but the lseek to
> the new offset, triggering a cryptic:
> 
>   "writing sparse image: Invalid argument"
> 
> Let's improve upon this a bit by translating lseek -EINVAL to -ENOSPC,
> so we get:
> 
>   "writing sparse image: No space left on device"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  common/fastboot.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied, thanks

Sascha

> 
> diff --git a/common/fastboot.c b/common/fastboot.c
> index 65d1d30f9092..261283d50a3a 100644
> --- a/common/fastboot.c
> +++ b/common/fastboot.c
> @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ static int fastboot_handle_sparse(struct fastboot *fb,
>  
>  			pos = lseek(fd, pos, SEEK_SET);
>  			if (pos == -1) {
> -				ret = -errno;
> +				ret = errno == EINVAL ? -ENOSPC : -errno;
>  				goto out;
>  			}
>  
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 
> 
> 

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