Hi, On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 03:23 +0200, Alex Beregszaszi wrote: > Hi, > > checksum-fix.diff fixes a checksum calculation bug in the lar utility, > where it would checksum less bytes then desired. > > lar-check-sum.diff implements checksum checking in the runtime lar code. > > I implemented the check inside the filename check, thus it wont be > executed on unneeded entries. As my assumption was that I cant modify > the memory, the code is skipping bytes between 20-24 of the header > (checksum field) to generate a correct sum. > > This is bad, as the numbers shall be updated at every lar structure > change. This is good, as we are not writing to memory.
Any comments to this? -- Alex -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
