Re: [PATCH 2/2] environment: Do not use environment when overlapping with other partitions

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On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 06:23:02AM -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 5:44 AM Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Environment partitions are usually specified with their hardcoded offset
> > and size, either in the device tree or the board file. These partitions
> > potentially overlap with other partitions read from the partition table.
> > Overlapping partitions for sure have bad effects. Be more friendly to our
> > users and warn them when such a situation occurs and stop using that
> > partition for storing the environment.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  common/startup.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  include/common.h | 10 ++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/common/startup.c b/common/startup.c
> > index 8553849cb3..f6bb1f1947 100644
> > --- a/common/startup.c
> > +++ b/common/startup.c
> > @@ -73,16 +73,62 @@ fs_initcall(mount_root);
> >  #endif
> >
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_ENV_HANDLING
> > +static int check_overlap(const char *path)
> > +{
> > +       struct cdev *cenv, *cdisk, *cpart;
> > +
> > +       if (strncmp(path, "/dev/", 5))
> > +               return 0;
> > +
> > +       path = devpath_to_name(path);
> 
> Minor suggestions: you can drop the strcmp above by relying on the
> fact that, if argument given to devpath_to_name() does not have
> "/dev/" in front of it, the return value would be that same as the
> argument. IOW, replace the above with:
> 
> name = devpath_to_name(path);
> 
> if (name == path) /* No "/dev" in front */
>     return 0;

Did that, thanks

Sascha

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