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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fat')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fat/inode.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fat/inode.c b/fs/fat/inode.c index c0b5b5c3373b..269e7b91b8b1 100644 --- a/fs/fat/inode.c +++ b/fs/fat/inode.c @@ -1803,11 +1803,15 @@ int fat_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent, int isvfat, fat_ent_access_init(sb); /* - * The low byte of FAT's first entry must have same value with - * media-field. But in real world, too many devices is - * writing wrong value. So, removed that validity check. + * The low byte of the first FAT entry must have the same value as + * the media field of the boot sector. But in real world, too many + * devices are writing wrong values. So, removed that validity check. * - * if (FAT_FIRST_ENT(sb, media) != first) + * The removed check compared the first FAT entry to a value dependent + * on the media field like this: + * == (0x0F00 | media), for FAT12 + * == (0XFF00 | media), for FAT16 + * == (0x0FFFFF | media), for FAT32 */ error = -EINVAL; |