patch for mkfs.ubifs devtable.c increment in dev_table is wrongly interpreted
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 03:36:39 EDT 2009
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 16:04 +0200, Daniel Neukomm wrote:
> patch for mkfs.ubifs devtable.c increment in dev_table is wrongly
> interpreted
>
> with the device table one can add /dev entries to the root file system
> image.
> The device table file contains among others the fields minor, start,
> increment and count.
> If there is an entry with minor=0 start=0 increment =32 and count=4 the
> mkfs.ubifs makes
> 128 device entries, with minor numbers from 0 to 127
> The correct version makes 4 entries with minor number 0,32,64,96.
>
> /dev/mtd c 640 0 0 90 0 0 2 7
> This gives 14 devices /dev/mtdXX instead of 7 devices.
> Due to this error mtd_debug info /dev/mtd3 delivers the information of
> /dev/mtd1 instead of.
>
> diff --git a/mkfs.ubifs/devtable.c b/mkfs.ubifs/devtable.c
> index 236a6e7..e2d96dc 100644
> --- a/mkfs.ubifs/devtable.c
> +++ b/mkfs.ubifs/devtable.c
> @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ static int interpret_table_entry(const char *line)
> goto out_free;
> }
> } else {
> - int i, num = start + increment * count, len =
> strlen(name) + 20;
> + int i, num = start + count, len = strlen(name) + 20;
> char *nm;
>
> for (i = start; i < num; i++) {
> @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ static int interpret_table_entry(const char *line)
> nh_elt->mode = mode;
> nh_elt->uid = uid;
> nh_elt->gid = gid;
> - nh_elt->dev = makedev(major, minor + i - start);
> + nh_elt->dev = makedev(major, minor + (i -
> start)*increment);
>
> nm = malloc(len);
> if (!nm) {
Hi,
thanks for the patch. Are you planning to re-send it properly with
no line-wrapping and with signed-off-by?
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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