Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix large nvram access
From: Olaf Hering <hidden>
Date: 2006-01-11 12:20:29
On Wed, Jan 11, Olaf Hering wrote:
quoted
I think this has uncovered a bug that has been in nvsetenv for a long time.
I made this change. Index: pmac-utils-2.1/nvsetenv.c ===================================================================
--- pmac-utils-2.1.orig/nvsetenv.c
+++ pmac-utils-2.1/nvsetenv.c@@ -110,12 +110,21 @@ int nvcsum( void ) static void nvload( int nvfd ) { int s; + ssize_t r, toread = 0; + char *buf = (char *)&nvbuf; - if (lseek(nvfd, NVSTART, 0) < 0 - || read(nvfd, &nvbuf, NVSIZE) != NVSIZE) { - perror("Error reading /dev/nvram"); + if ((off_t)-1 == lseek(nvfd, NVSTART, 0)) { + perror("Error seeking /dev/nvram"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } + do { + r = read(nvfd, buf + toread, NVSIZE - toread); + if (r < 0) { + perror("Error reading /dev/nvram"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + toread += r; + } while (toread < NVSIZE && r); if (nvbuf.nv.magic != NVMAGIC) (void) fprintf(stderr, "Warning: Bad magic number %x\n", nvbuf.nv.magic);
@@ -127,11 +136,21 @@ static void nvload( int nvfd ) static void nvstore(int nvfd) { - if (lseek(nvfd, NVSTART, 0) < 0 - || write(nvfd, &nvbuf, NVSIZE) != NVSIZE) { - perror("Error writing /dev/nvram"); + char *p = (char *)&nvbuf; + size_t count = 0; + off_t w; + if (lseek(nvfd, NVSTART, 0) < 0) { + perror("Error seeking /dev/nvram"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } + do { + w = write(nvfd, p + count, NVSIZE - count); + if (w < 0) { + perror("Error writing /dev/nvram"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + count += w; + } while (count < NVSIZE); } void nvunpack( void )
Index: pmac-utils-2.1/nwnvsetenv.c ===================================================================
--- pmac-utils-2.1.orig/nwnvsetenv.c
+++ pmac-utils-2.1/nwnvsetenv.c@@ -88,15 +88,20 @@ int nvscan(int nvfd, chrp_header* chrph, static char* nvload( int nvfd , int nvsize) { char* nvbuf = malloc(nvsize); + ssize_t r, toread = 0; if (!nvbuf) { perror("Error allocating buffer"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } - if (read(nvfd, nvbuf, nvsize) != nvsize) { - perror("Error reading /dev/nvram"); - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); - } + do { + r = read(nvfd, nvbuf + toread, nvsize - toread); + if (r < 0) { + perror("Error reading /dev/nvram"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + toread += r; + } while (toread < nvsize && r); return nvbuf; }
@@ -182,6 +187,7 @@ print_var(char* nvbuf, int nvsize, char* printf("%s\n",buf); } +#if 0 /* This fucntion is not used here, it is left her for the curious */
@@ -197,26 +203,28 @@ unsigned short chrp_checksum(chrp_header sum = (sum & 0xFF) + (sum>>8); return sum; } +#endif static void nvstore(int nvfd, chrp_header* chrph, char* nvbuf, int nvstart, int nvsize) { // mmh, the checksum is calculated for the header only // since we did not modify the header we can just ignore it. - ssize_t written; - ssize_t seek = nvstart + sizeof(chrp_header); - written = lseek(nvfd, seek, SEEK_SET); - if (written != seek) - { + size_t count = 0; + off_t w, seek = nvstart + sizeof(chrp_header); + w = lseek(nvfd, seek, SEEK_SET); + if (w != seek) { fprintf(stderr,"Error seeking /dev/nvram\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } - written = write(nvfd, nvbuf, nvsize); - if (written != nvsize) - { - fprintf(stderr,"Error writing /dev/nvram %x %x\n", nvsize, seek); - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); - } + do { + w = write(nvfd, nvbuf + count, nvsize - count); + if (w < 0) { + perror("Error writing /dev/nvram"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + count += w; + } while (count < (size_t)nvsize); } /* print / set the New World NVRAM */
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