UBI Tools - problem with multiple ubi devices.

Alexander Schmidt alexs at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Feb 28 04:29:34 EST 2007


On Tuesday 27 February 2007, John Smith wrote:
> In
> GIT:      users/haver/mtd-utils.git
> File:     ubi-utils/src/libubi.c
> Function: get_ubi_info
> 
> The code counts the number of UBI volumes by looking for files called
> 
>   /sys/class/ubi0, /sys/class/ubi1, ...
> 
> but the files are actually
> 
>   /sys/class/ubi/ubi0, ...
> 
> The count starts from 1 (probably also wrong), so is usable if there is a
> single UBI device. But if there is more than one UBI device, tools like
> ubimkvol fail.

Hi John,

thanks for pointing this out.

Frank, please review and commit.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Schmidt <alexs at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 ubi-utils/src/libubi.c |   16 ++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- mtd-utils.orig/ubi-utils/src/libubi.c
+++ mtd-utils/ubi-utils/src/libubi.c
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static int
 get_ubi_info(ubi_lib_t desc, struct ubi_info *ubi)
 {
 	int err;
-	int n = 1;
+	int dev_count = 0;
 	char *path;
 	struct stat stat;
 
@@ -147,31 +147,31 @@ get_ubi_info(ubi_lib_t desc, struct ubi_
 		return -1;
 
 	/* Calculate number of UBI devices */
-	do {
+	while (!err) {
 		char dir[20];
 
-		sprintf(&dir[0], "ubi%d", n);
-		path = mkpath(desc->sysfs_root, dir);
+		sprintf(&dir[0], "ubi%d", dev_count);
+		path = mkpath(desc->ubi_root, dir);
 		if (!path)
 			return ENOMEM;
 
 		err = lstat(path, &stat);
 		if (err == 0)
-			n += 1;
+			dev_count += 1;
 		free(path);
-	} while (err == 0);
+	}
 
 	if (errno != ENOENT)
 		return -1;
 
-	if (n == 0) {
+	if (dev_count == 0) {
 		ubi_err("no UBI devices found");
 		errno = EINVAL;
 		return -1;
 	}
 
 	errno = 0;
-	ubi->dev_count = n;
+	ubi->dev_count = dev_count;
 	return 0;
 }
 




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