Dear Daniel Mack,
In message 20090928100400.GY9361@buzzloop.caiaq.de you wrote:
The current fatload code has a problem together with the way the DOS partition parser is implemented.
This hit me when I tried to load a file from a USB stick which had no partition table but a FAT16 directly written to the first sector.
With such an environment, get_partition_info_extended() still finds a valid partition at the first sector since the 0x55aa magic is valid for both the MBR and the FAT boot sector.
As a result, part_offset in fs/fat/fat.c is then set to some ridiculous value and the code searching for the directory entry gets lots in an endless loop.
The fix is quite simple though - we just need to check the status field of the partitions more stricly. According to the specs, it may only contain 0x00 and 0x80. If get_partition_info() fails for this case, the fatload code falls back to the assumption that there is no partition table and does the right thing then.
Please consider applying the following patch.
Daniel
From 381a85bf04adc228cc70e8fa7af899a6dbf07e42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Mack daniel@caiaq.de Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:40:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] part_dos: check status flags of partitions
Only read partitions which have 0x00 or 0x80 set in their status field. All others are invalid.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack daniel@caiaq.de
disk/part_dos.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk