Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] block: sed-opal: check size of shadow mbr

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Mar 19 2018 - 16:02:02 EST


On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 07:36:53PM +0100, Jonas Rabenstein wrote:
> Check whether the shadow mbr does fit in the provided space on the
> target. Also a proper firmware should handle this case and return an
> error we may prevent problems or even damage with crappy firmwares.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Rabenstein <jonas.rabenstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/block/sed-opal.c b/block/sed-opal.c
> index 51f8034edbf7..9c73bd24c55f 100644
> --- a/block/sed-opal.c
> +++ b/block/sed-opal.c
> @@ -1545,6 +1545,20 @@ static int write_shadow_mbr(struct opal_dev *dev, void *data)
> u64 len;
> int err = 0;
>
> + /* do we fit in the available shadow mbr space? */
> + err = generic_get_table_info(dev, OPAL_MBR, OPAL_TABLE_ROWS);

And here it gets used. So this should be merged with the previous patch.