Re: [patch] Re: 2.2.0-pre2 fat_read_super: Bad fsinfo_offset

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:39:22 +0100 (MET)


From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)

So a 'correct' fix badly needs finding. But yes the current fix isnt

Alan

Hmm. Maybe it is in your mailbox already. Try

--- ../../../../linux-2.2.0pre3/linux/fs/fat/inode.c Sat Jan 2 12:25:36 1999
+++ inode.c Sat Jan 2 15:55:40 1999
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@
MSDOS_SB(sb)->root_cluster = CF_LE_L(b->root_cluster);
MSDOS_SB(sb)->fsinfo_offset =
CF_LE_W(b->info_sector) * logical_sector_size + 0x1e0;
- if (MSDOS_SB(sb)->fsinfo_offset + sizeof(MSDOS_SB(sb)->fsinfo_offset) >= sizeof(struct fat_boot_sector)) {
+ if (MSDOS_SB(sb)->fsinfo_offset + sizeof(struct fat_boot_fsinfo) > sb->s_blocksize) {
printk("fat_read_super: Bad fsinfo_offset\n");
fat_brelse(sb, bh);
goto out_invalid;

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