If geom_map fails to find the end of a mapped partition based on a search, it would return the incorrect error message, stating it could not parse the START value
Reviewed by: adrian
Approved by: bapt (mentor)
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4187
* Just do the buf check early and fail out
* If the offset being searched is:
00110000 00 b5 7e 45 61 e2 76 d3 c1 78 dd 15 95 cd 1f f1 |..~Ea.v..x......|
.. and the match string is '.!/bin/sh'
.. then it'll set the match string[0] to '\0', do a strncmp() against
the read buffer, find it's matching two zero-length strings, and think
that's where to start.
MFC after: 2 weeks
embedded flash stores.
Some devices - notably those with uboot - don't have an
explicit partition table (eg like Redboot's FIS.)
geom_map thus provides an easy way to export the hard-coded
flash layout as geom providers for use by filesystems and
other tools.
It also includes a "search" function which allows for
dynamic creation of partition layouts where the device only
has a single hard-coded partition. For example, if
there is a "kernel+rootfs" partition, a single image can
be created which appends the rootfs after the kernel with
an appropriate search string. geom_map can be told to
search for said search string and create a partition
beginning after it.
Submitted by: Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@dlink.ua>
