part_efi: fix protective mbr struct allocation
authorHector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:48:24 +0000 (09:48 +0100)
committerChanho Park <chanho61.park@samsung.com>
Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:22:50 +0000 (22:22 +0900)
The calloc() call was allocating space for the sizeof the struct
pointer rather than for the struct contents.
Besides, since this buffer is passed to mmc for writing and some
platforms may use cache, the legacy_mbr struct should be cache-aligned.

Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>
Tested-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
disk/part_efi.c

index 19c00b082e997fde5c5cc2901067e150253c2dc5..30b43c6e7816db6e40bbf736580c79e7361acdaa 100644 (file)
@@ -213,10 +213,10 @@ int test_part_efi(block_dev_desc_t * dev_desc)
  */
 static int set_protective_mbr(block_dev_desc_t *dev_desc)
 {
-       legacy_mbr *p_mbr;
-
        /* Setup the Protective MBR */
-       p_mbr = calloc(1, sizeof(p_mbr));
+       ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER(legacy_mbr, p_mbr, 1);
+       memset(p_mbr, 0, sizeof(*p_mbr));
+
        if (p_mbr == NULL) {
                printf("%s: calloc failed!\n", __func__);
                return -1;
@@ -231,11 +231,9 @@ static int set_protective_mbr(block_dev_desc_t *dev_desc)
        if (dev_desc->block_write(dev_desc->dev, 0, 1, p_mbr) != 1) {
                printf("** Can't write to device %d **\n",
                        dev_desc->dev);
-               free(p_mbr);
                return -1;
        }
 
-       free(p_mbr);
        return 0;
 }