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authorFrank Kühndel <frank.kuehndel@embedded-brains.de>2020-10-09 15:40:13 +0200
committerSebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>2020-10-12 13:18:27 +0200
commita479686c112144119866391ceb21c48be6a3eca9 (patch)
tree0939212f8fdf47b31be7f581ba51a6011c629d9d /cpukit/include/rtems/bdpart.h
parentcpukit/libmisc/monitor: Fix an illegal string copy (diff)
downloadrtems-a479686c112144119866391ceb21c48be6a3eca9.tar.bz2
shell: Remove not functioning fdisk mount/unmount
The shell has an 'fdisk' command which has sub-commands 'mount' and 'unmount'. These two sub-commands have a bug which causes them to be not able to mount anything. This proposed patch removes the buggy file cpukit/libblock/src/bdpart-mount.c and the mount/unmount commands from 'fdisk' as bug fix. The 'fdisk' command itself is not removed. The reasons for removing the sub-commands (instead of fixing the issue) are: 1) The bug has been introduced on 2010-May-31 with commit 29e92b090c8bc35745aa5c89231ce806bcb11e57. Since ten years no one can use this feature, nor has anybody complained about it. 2) Besides of the 'fdisk' 'mount' sub-command, the shell has the usual 'mount' and 'unmount' commands which can serve as substitutes. 3) There are additional minor issues (see further down) which needed to be addressed when the file will be kept. What follows below is the precise bug description. The bug is in function rtems_bdpart_mount() which is only be used by the 'fdisk' shell command to mount all partitions of a disk with a single command: > fdisk DISK_NAME mount > mounts the file system of each partition of the disk > > fdisk DISK_NAME unmount > unmounts the file system of each partition of the disk The whole command does not work because in file cpukit/libblock/src/bdpart-mount.c line 103 specifies the file system type of each partition to be "msdos". Yet, "msdos" does not exist. The name must be "dosfs". Beside of this fundamental problem, there are more issues with the code in bdpart-mount.c: 1) The function returns RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL despite the mount always fails. 2) The reason for errors is not written to the terminal. 3) The directory '/mnt' is created but not deleted later on (failure or not). 3) There is no documentation about this special 'fdisk' feature in the RTEMS Shell Guide ('fdisk' is mentioned but its documentation is a bit short): https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/shell/ file_and_directory.html#fdisk-format-disk 4) Only "msdos" formatted partitions can be mounted and all partitions are mounted read-only. This is hard coded and cannot be changed by options. Moreover, there is no information about this to the user of the shell (i.e. using 'fdisk' mount requires insider knowledge). How to reproduce: 1) For testing, I use the 'testsuites/samples/fileio.exe' sample with qemu: > cd rtems > env QEMU_AUDIO_DRV="none" qemu-system-arm -net none -nographic \ > -M realview-pbx-a9 -m 256M -kernel \ > build/arm/realview_pbx_a9_qemu/testsuites/samples/fileio.exe 2) Type any key to stop the timer and enter the sample tool. Type 's' to enter the shell, login as 'root' with the password shown in the terminal. 3) Type the following shell commands (they create a RAM disk, partition it, register it, format it and try to mount it): > mkrd > fdisk /dev/rda fat32 16 write mbr > fdisk /dev/rda register > mkdos /dev/rda1 > fdisk /dev/rda mount 4) The last line above is the command which fails - without an error message. There exists a '/mnt' directory but no '/mnt/rda1' directory as it should be: > ls -la /mnt 5) If you change line 103 of 'cpukit/libblock/src/bdpart-mount.c' from "msdos" to "dosfs", compile and build the executable and re-run the above test, '/mnt/rda1' exists (but the file system is mounted read-only). Close #4131
Diffstat (limited to 'cpukit/include/rtems/bdpart.h')
-rw-r--r--cpukit/include/rtems/bdpart.h39
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 38 deletions
diff --git a/cpukit/include/rtems/bdpart.h b/cpukit/include/rtems/bdpart.h
index 8886c3614d..f82a3275de 100644
--- a/cpukit/include/rtems/bdpart.h
+++ b/cpukit/include/rtems/bdpart.h
@@ -7,13 +7,7 @@
*/
/*
- * Copyright (c) 2009-2012 embedded brains GmbH. All rights reserved.
- *
- * embedded brains GmbH
- * Obere Lagerstr. 30
- * 82178 Puchheim
- * Germany
- * <rtems@embedded-brains.de>
+ * Copyright (C) 2009, 2012 embedded brains GmbH (http://www.embedded-brains.de)
*
* The license and distribution terms for this file may be
* found in the file LICENSE in this distribution or at
@@ -303,37 +297,6 @@ rtems_status_code rtems_bdpart_unregister(
);
/**
- * @brief Mounts all supported file systems inside the logical disks derived
- * from the partitions of the physical disk device with name @a disk_name.
- *
- * For each partition in the partition table @a partitions with @a count
- * partitions it will be checked if it contains a supported file system. In
- * this case a mount point derived from the disk name will be created in the
- * mount base path @a mount_base. The file system will be mounted there. The
- * partition number equals the partition table index plus one. The mount point
- * name for each partition will be the concatenation of the mount base path,
- * the disk device file name and the parition number.
- *
- * @see rtems_bdpart_read().
- */
-rtems_status_code rtems_bdpart_mount(
- const char *disk_name,
- const rtems_bdpart_partition *partitions,
- size_t count,
- const char *mount_base
-);
-
-/**
- * @brief Unmounts all file systems mounted with rtems_bdpart_mount().
- */
-rtems_status_code rtems_bdpart_unmount(
- const char *disk_name,
- const rtems_bdpart_partition *partitions,
- size_t count,
- const char *mount_base
-);
-
-/**
* @brief Prints the partition table @a partitions with @a count partitions to
* standard output.
*/