On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 01:42:16PM +0200, Marcin Niestroj wrote:
> This patch fixes lately introduced speed improvement of ramfs_truncate
> function. Number of chunks were passed to ramfs_find_chunk function,
> which returned NULL as result. Chunks are indexed from 0, hence we
> need to pass (number_of_chunks - 1) to get pointer to the last chunk.
>
> Fixes: d49dd1d840d7 ("fs: improve ramfs_truncate speed")
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Niestroj <[email protected]>
> ---
> Hi,
>
> Just few words to clarify where this bug come from.
>
> We are fixing now patch [1], which was rebased on top of patch [2].
> Simple file transfer using fastboot protocol worked fine in such
> configuration. However it turned out that [2] had bug (`newchunks = 1`
> instead of `oldchunks = 1`). After [2] was fixed it turned out that
> [1] has also bug, which results in NULL pointer dereference during
> file upload with fastboot protocol.
>
> Patch tested on `next` branch.
>
> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/barebox/2018-September/034859.html
> [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/barebox/2018-September/034855.html
>
> fs/ramfs.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ramfs.c b/fs/ramfs.c
> index bad126c65..84ecfa0dd 100644
> --- a/fs/ramfs.c
> +++ b/fs/ramfs.c
> @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ static int ramfs_truncate(struct device_d *dev, FILE *f,
> ulong size)
>
> if (newchunks > oldchunks) {
> if (data) {
> - data = ramfs_find_chunk(node, oldchunks);
> + data = ramfs_find_chunk(node, oldchunks - 1);
Ok, makes sense. I squashed this into the original commit.
Thanks
Sascha
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