cvs commit: src/sys/fs/msdosfs bpb.h msdosfs_fat.c msdosfs_vfsops.c msdosfsmount.h

Bruce Evans bde at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 12 16:09:08 UTC 2007


bde         2007-07-12 16:09:07 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:
    sys/fs/msdosfs       bpb.h msdosfs_fat.c msdosfs_vfsops.c 
                         msdosfsmount.h 
  Log:
  Fix some bugs involving the fsinfo block (many remain unfixed).  This is
  part of fixing msdosfs for large sector sizes.  One of the fixed bugs
  was fatal for large sector sizes.
  
  1. The fsinfo block has size 512, but it was misunderstood and declared
     as having size 1024, with nothing in the second 512 bytes except a
     signature at the end.  The second 512 bytes actually normally (if
     the file system was created by Windows) consist of a second boot
     sector which is normally (in WinXP) empty except for a signature --
     the normal layout is one boot sector, one fsinfo sector, another
     boot sector, then these 3 sectors duplicated.  However, other
     layouts are valid.  newfs_msdos produces a valid layout with one
     boot sector, one fsinfo sector, then these 2 sectors duplicated.
     The signature check for the extra part of the fsinfo was thus
     normally checking the signature in either the second boot sector
     or the first boot sector in the copy, and thus accidentally
     succeeding.  The extra signature check would just fail for weirder
     layouts with 512-byte sectors, and for normal layouts with any other
     sector size.
  
     Remove the extra bytes and the extra signature check.
  
  2. Old versions did i/o to the fsinfo block using size 1024, with the
     second half only used for the extra signature check on read.  This
     was harmless for sector size 512, and worked accidentally for sector
     size 1024.  The i/o just failed for larger sector sizes.
  
     The version being fixed did i/o to the fsinfo block using size
     fsi_size(pmp) = (1024 << ((pmp)->pm_BlkPerSec >> 2)).  This
     expression makes no sense.  It happens to work for sector small
     sector sizes, but for sector size 32K it gives the preposterous
     value of 64M and thus causes panics.  A sector size of 32768 is
     necessary for at least some DVD-RW's (where the minimum write size
     is 32768 although the minimum read size is 2048).
  
     Now that the size of the fsinfo block is 512, it always fits in
     one sector so there is no need for a macro to express it.  Just
     use the sector size where the old code uses 1024.
  
  Approved by:    re (kensmith)
  Approved by:    nyan (several years ago for a different version of (2))
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.16      +0 -2      src/sys/fs/msdosfs/bpb.h
  1.41      +1 -1      src/sys/fs/msdosfs/msdosfs_fat.c
  1.165     +2 -3      src/sys/fs/msdosfs/msdosfs_vfsops.c
  1.39      +0 -6      src/sys/fs/msdosfs/msdosfsmount.h


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