[PATCH v2 3/3] mtd: cmdlinepart: check the partitions

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 04:19:45 EDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 15:43 +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> +enum partition_check_result {
> +	PARTITION_GOOD,
> +	PARTITION_OVERLAPPED,
> +	PARTITION_HOLE,
> +	PARTITION_TOO_MUCH_CONT,
> +};

Could you please kill these constants, they are not really needed I
think.

> +/* The partitions have been sorted well by the @offset. */
> +static inline int check_partitions(struct mtd_partition *parts, int num_parts)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +	uint64_t offset = 0;
> +	int offset_continuous_cnt = 0;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < num_parts; i++) {
> +		if (parts[i].offset == OFFSET_CONTINUOUS) {
> +			offset_continuous_cnt++;
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +
> +		/* find a hole. */
> +		if (parts[i].offset > offset)
> +			return PARTITION_HOLE;

Just print the error messages in this function and return -EINVAL.


> @@ -285,13 +333,37 @@ static int mtdpart_setup_real(char *s)
>  		/* sort the partitions */
>  		sort_partitons(parts, num_parts);
>  
> -		/* link into chain */
> -		this_mtd->next = partitions;
> -		partitions = this_mtd;
> +		/* check the partitions */
> +		ret = check_partitions(parts, num_parts);

Just do

if (ret)
	return ret;


and kill the huge 'switch' that you added.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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