Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge

From: xinhui <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:30:02 +0800

From: Pan Xinhui <[email-masked]>

When we merge two contiguous partitions whose signatures are marked
NVRAM_SIG_FREE, We need update prev's length and checksum, then write it
to nvram, not cur's. So lets fix this mistake now.

Also use memset instead of strncpy to set the partition's name. It's
more readable if we want to fill up with duplicate chars .

Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
index 21a278b7..40e80ca 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ int __init nvram_remove_partition(const char *name, int sig,
 
 		/* Make partition a free partition */
 		part->header.signature = NVRAM_SIG_FREE;
-		strncpy(part->header.name, "wwwwwwwwwwww", 12);
+		memset(part->header.name, 'w', 12);
 		part->header.checksum = nvram_checksum(&part->header);
 		rc = nvram_write_header(part);
 		if (rc <= 0) {
@@ -987,8 +987,8 @@ int __init nvram_remove_partition(const char *name, int sig,
 		}
 		if (prev) {
 			prev->header.length += part->header.length;
-			prev->header.checksum = nvram_checksum(&part->header);
-			rc = nvram_write_header(part);
+			prev->header.checksum = nvram_checksum(&prev->header);
+			rc = nvram_write_header(prev);
 			if (rc <= 0) {
 				printk(KERN_ERR "nvram_remove_partition: nvram_write failed (%d)\n", rc);
 				return rc;
-- 
2.5.0