Commit 190a8843 authored by Conrad Meyer's avatar Conrad Meyer Committed by Linus Torvalds
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fs/fat/: add support for DOS 1.x formatted volumes

Add structure for parsed BPB information, struct fat_bios_param_block,
and move all of the deserialization and validation logic from
fat_fill_super() into fat_read_bpb().

Add a 'dos1xfloppy' mount option to infer DOS 2.x BIOS Parameter Block
defaults from block device geometry for ancient floppies and floppy
images, as a fall-back from the default BPB parsing logic.

When fat_read_bpb() finds an invalid FAT filesystem and dos1xfloppy is
set, fall back to fat_read_static_bpb().  fat_read_static_bpb()
validates that the entire BPB is zero, and that the floppy has a
DOS-style 8086 code bootstrapping header.  Then it fills in default BPB
values from media size and a table.[0]

Media size is assumed to be static for archaic FAT volumes.  See also:
[1].

Fixes kernel.org bug #42617.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Exceptions
[1]: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/fs/fat/fat-1.html

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fix missed error code]
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