powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge
authorPan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 10 Dec 2015 07:30:02 +0000 (15:30 +0800)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 06:15:42 +0000 (16:15 +1000)
When we merge two contiguous partitions whose signatures are marked
NVRAM_SIG_FREE, We need update prev's length and checksum, then write it
to nvram, not cur's. So lets fix this mistake now.

Also use memset instead of strncpy to set the partition's name. It's
more readable if we want to fill up with duplicate chars .

Fixes: fa2b4e54d41f ("powerpc/nvram: Improve partition removal")
Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c

index 6cd3a45..34d2c59 100644 (file)
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ int __init nvram_remove_partition(const char *name, int sig,
 
                /* Make partition a free partition */
                part->header.signature = NVRAM_SIG_FREE;
-               strncpy(part->header.name, "wwwwwwwwwwww", 12);
+               memset(part->header.name, 'w', 12);
                part->header.checksum = nvram_checksum(&part->header);
                rc = nvram_write_header(part);
                if (rc <= 0) {
@@ -974,8 +974,8 @@ int __init nvram_remove_partition(const char *name, int sig,
                }
                if (prev) {
                        prev->header.length += part->header.length;
-                       prev->header.checksum = nvram_checksum(&part->header);
-                       rc = nvram_write_header(part);
+                       prev->header.checksum = nvram_checksum(&prev->header);
+                       rc = nvram_write_header(prev);
                        if (rc <= 0) {
                                printk(KERN_ERR "nvram_remove_partition: nvram_write failed (%d)\n", rc);
                                return rc;