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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2012 17:00:19 -0500
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r232570 - head/sys/boot/i386/boot2
Message-ID:  <201203071700.21259.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201203051953.q25JrIS1002269@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201203051953.q25JrIS1002269@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Monday 05 March 2012 02:53 pm, John Baldwin wrote:
> Author: jhb
> Date: Mon Mar  5 19:53:17 2012
> New Revision: 232570
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/232570
>
> Log:
>   Fix boot2 to handle boot config files that only contain a custom
> path to a loader or kernel.  Specifically, kname cannot be pointed
> at cmd[] since it's value is change to be an empty string after the
> initial call to parse, and cmd[]'s value can be changed (thus
> losing a prior setting for kname) due to user input at the boot
> prompt.  While here, ensure that that initial boot config file text
> is nul-terminated, that ops is initialized to zero, and that kname
> is always initialized to a valid string.

As many people pointed out, Clang overflows boot2 again after this 
commit.  Long long time ago, I asked this question on arch@:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200509081418.47794.jkim

Why can't we do that now?  Can't we build separate ufs1-only and 
ufs2-only boot2's, at least?  Having ufs1+ufs2 boot block is great 
but I see very little benefit to support that in 2012. :-/

Jung-uk Kim



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