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authorCarmeli Tamir <carmeli.tamir@gmail.com>2019-01-03 15:27:53 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-01-04 13:13:47 -0800
commitb553337a57cf4f077464292520f4e975ea4cda83 (patch)
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fat: remove FAT_FIRST_ENT macro
The comment edited in this patch was the only reference to the FAT_FIRST_ENT macro, which is not used anymore. Moreover, the commented line of code does not compile with the current code. Since the FAT_FIRST_ENT macro checks the FAT variant in a way that the patch series changes, I removed it, and instead wrote a clear explanation of what was checked. I verified that the changed comment is correct according to Microsoft FAT spec, search for "BPB_Media" in the following references: 1. Microsoft FAT specification 2005 (http://read.pudn.com/downloads77/ebook/294884/FAT32%20Spec%20%28SDA%20Contribution%29.pdf). Search for 'volume label'. 2. Microsoft Extensible Firmware Initiative, FAT32 File System Specification (https://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/fatgen103.pdf). Search for 'volume label'. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1544990640-11604-2-git-send-email-carmeli.tamir@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Carmeli Tamir <carmeli.tamir@gmail.com> Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fat')
-rw-r--r--fs/fat/inode.c12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fat/inode.c b/fs/fat/inode.c
index c0b5b5c3373b..269e7b91b8b1 100644
--- a/fs/fat/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fat/inode.c
@@ -1803,11 +1803,15 @@ int fat_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent, int isvfat,
fat_ent_access_init(sb);
/*
- * The low byte of FAT's first entry must have same value with
- * media-field. But in real world, too many devices is
- * writing wrong value. So, removed that validity check.
+ * The low byte of the first FAT entry must have the same value as
+ * the media field of the boot sector. But in real world, too many
+ * devices are writing wrong values. So, removed that validity check.
*
- * if (FAT_FIRST_ENT(sb, media) != first)
+ * The removed check compared the first FAT entry to a value dependent
+ * on the media field like this:
+ * == (0x0F00 | media), for FAT12
+ * == (0XFF00 | media), for FAT16
+ * == (0x0FFFFF | media), for FAT32
*/
error = -EINVAL;