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bug#35283: [PATCH] mformat: initialize boot sector before writing it


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: bug#35283: [PATCH] mformat: initialize boot sector before writing it
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 01:03:57 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux)

Hello,

While investigating reproducible ISO images for Guix¹, I found that
‘mformat’ would not initialize the boot sector before writing it.  This
led to non-deterministic FAT image contents.

The attached patch fixes that.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

¹ https://issues.guix.info/issue/35283

Fix a bug whereby 'mformat' could end up passing uninitialized bytes
to write(2).  This could be reproduced with:

  mformat -C -f 1440 -L 16  -N 77777777 -i  /tmp/x ::

where the output of /tmp/x would be non-deterministic.

Patch by Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>.

--- mtools-4.0.23/mformat.c     2019-04-21 00:12:01.496116195 +0200
+++ mtools-4.0.23/mformat.c     2019-04-21 00:12:36.675967157 +0200
@@ -927,6 +927,7 @@ void mformat(int argc, char **argv, int
        
        char *endptr;
 
+       memset(&boot.bytes, '\0', sizeof boot);
        hs = hs_set = 0;
        argtracks = 0;
        argheads = 0;


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