[syslinux] A bug in command localboot was introduced in version 6.03.

Erwan Velu
Sat, 19 Jan 2019 21:35:05 -0000

Can you detail what bug that introduce ?
Behavior with the current code and with your change proposal ?
That's pretty unclear for me.
Thanks !

Le mer. 16 janv. 2019 ? 07:46, Victor Sologoubov via Syslinux
<syslinux at zytor.com> a ?crit :
>
> A bug in command localboot was introduced in version 6.03.
> This bug was created because of inserting memsets in core/localboot.c.
> The third memset before /* Read one sector */ clears the field ireg.edx,
> which was assigned earlier and is required for subsequent __intcall0x13.
>
> So localboot type works as localboot 0.
>
> I think, this third memset in core/localboot.c is useless and excessive.
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