[PATCH 4/4] UBI: replace MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT with user-space parameter

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 04:17:00 EDT 2012


On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 08:55 +0200, Richard Genoud wrote:
> Hi Artem,
> 2012/8/19 Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com>:
> > Yeah, I wanted to make it 1..256 but forgot, will do now. 0..256 would
> > need some more work to avoid division by 0.
> Division by 0 is handled in the get_bad_peb_limit() function, I don't
> see another dangerous place.

        if (mult_frac(limit, 1024, max_beb_per1024) < device_pebs)

will divide by 0 if max_beb_per1024 is 0.

> (and if we want to be coherent with user-space, it should be 0..255,
> as the range is coded with an u8)

I think it should be uint16_t instead, because we are defining ABI here
and we should not assume no one will ever nee values higher than 255.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/attachments/20120820/759f15de/attachment.sig>


More information about the linux-mtd mailing list