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Add boot sector checksums to EDD

RFC PATCH New Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 1 participant 1 message Nov 10, 2004

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RFC PATCH 1/1 Add boot sector checksums to EDD

Hi Matt,

this first draft of a patch to implement boot sector checksums in EDD. Since the comments in edd.S and edd.h discourage changing some offsets, I made my code overwrite the /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev*/mbr_signature file contents. For a later patch I would suggest to add a mbr_checksum file, so the two can coexist.
The patch is tested and didn't break anything on my machine so far. Please comment.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
http://www.hailfinger.org/

linux-2.6.9/arch/i386/boot/edd.S renamed from linux-2.6.9/arch/i386/boot/edd.S~ +14 -1
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
  *   projects 1572D, 1484D, 1386D, 1226DT
  * disk signature read by Matt Domsch <[email protected]>
  *	and Andrew Wilks <[email protected]> September 2003, June 2004
- * legacy CHS retreival by Patrick J. LoPresti <[email protected]>
+ * disk checksum computation by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
+ *	<[email protected]> November 2004
+ * legacy CHS retrieval by Patrick J. LoPresti <[email protected]>
  *      March 2004
  * Use EXTENDED READ calls if possible, Matt Domsch, October 2004
  */
@@ -88,10 +90,21 @@
 	movb	%dl, %bl			# copy drive number to ebx
 	sub	$0x80, %bl			# subtract 80h from drive number
 	shlw	$2, %bx				# multiply by 4
+	movw	%bx, %cx			# save bx
 	addw	$EDD_MBR_SIG_BUF, %bx		# add to sig_buf
 						# bx now points to the right sig slot
 	movl	(EDDBUF+EDD_MBR_SIG_OFFSET), %eax # read sig out of the MBR
 	movl	%eax, (%bx)			# store success
+	movw	%cx, %bx			# restore bx
+	addw	$EDD_MBR_CKSUM_BUF, %bx		# add to cksum_buf
+						# bx now points to the right cksum slot
+	xorl	%eax, %eax			# clear eax
+	movl	$0x7f, %ecx			# loop counter
+edd_mbr_compute_checksum:
+	xorl	EDDBUF(,%ecx,4), %eax		# compute checksum of mbr
+	decl	%ecx
+	jns	edd_mbr_compute_checksum	# until the checksum in complete
+	movl	%eax, (%bx)			# store success
 	incb	(EDD_MBR_SIG_NR_BUF)		# note that we stored something
 edd_mbr_sig_next:
 	incb	%dl				# increment to next device
linux-2.6.9/include/linux/edd.h renamed from linux-2.6.9/include/linux/edd.h~ +1 -0
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 #define EDD_MBR_SIG_OFFSET 0x1B8  /* offset of signature in the MBR */
 #define EDD_DEV_ADDR_PACKET_LEN 0x10  /* for int13 fn42 */
 #define EDD_MBR_SIG_BUF    0x290  /* addr in boot params */
+#define EDD_MBR_CKSUM_BUF    0x290  /* addr in boot params */
 #define EDD_MBR_SIG_MAX 16        /* max number of signatures to store */
 #define EDD_MBR_SIG_NR_BUF 0x1ea  /* addr of number of MBR signtaures at EDD_MBR_SIG_BUF
 				     in boot_params - treat this as 1 byte  */