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authorConrad Meyer <cse.cem@gmail.com>2014-06-06 14:36:37 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-06 16:08:10 -0700
commit190a8843ded231638d0e7ae7d8ca6a712472d114 (patch)
tree30e99192bc39f30584197eab47b119478d8dfe37 /fs/fat/fat.h
parenta19189e5535ed8fd191d8989fc39da1637cfa224 (diff)
downloadlinux-190a8843ded231638d0e7ae7d8ca6a712472d114.tar.gz
fs/fat/: add support for DOS 1.x formatted volumes
Add structure for parsed BPB information, struct fat_bios_param_block,
and move all of the deserialization and validation logic from
fat_fill_super() into fat_read_bpb().

Add a 'dos1xfloppy' mount option to infer DOS 2.x BIOS Parameter Block
defaults from block device geometry for ancient floppies and floppy
images, as a fall-back from the default BPB parsing logic.

When fat_read_bpb() finds an invalid FAT filesystem and dos1xfloppy is
set, fall back to fat_read_static_bpb().  fat_read_static_bpb()
validates that the entire BPB is zero, and that the floppy has a
DOS-style 8086 code bootstrapping header.  Then it fills in default BPB
values from media size and a table.[0]

Media size is assumed to be static for archaic FAT volumes.  See also:
[1].

Fixes kernel.org bug #42617.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Exceptions
[1]: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/fs/fat/fat-1.html

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fix missed error code]
Signed-off-by: Conrad Meyer <cse.cem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Tested-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fat/fat.h')
-rw-r--r--fs/fat/fat.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fat/fat.h b/fs/fat/fat.h
index 7c31f4bc74a9..e0c4ba39a377 100644
--- a/fs/fat/fat.h
+++ b/fs/fat/fat.h
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ struct fat_mount_options {
 		 usefree:1,	   /* Use free_clusters for FAT32 */
 		 tz_set:1,	   /* Filesystem timestamps' offset set */
 		 rodir:1,	   /* allow ATTR_RO for directory */
-		 discard:1;	   /* Issue discard requests on deletions */
+		 discard:1,	   /* Issue discard requests on deletions */
+		 dos1xfloppy:1;	   /* Assume default BPB for DOS 1.x floppies */
 };
 
 #define FAT_HASH_BITS	8