0000865: FAL ignores Read-Only flag, therefore writing access to MBR block must be rejected in partition driver already.

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0000865	PicoCOM3	NAND-FMD	public	2011-12-14 13:15	2012-05-31 12:08

Reporter	~~Kiepfer~~	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	V1.1
Target Version	V1.2	Fixed in Version	V1.2

Summary	0000865: FAL ignores Read-Only flag, therefore writing access to MBR block must be rejected in partition driver already.
Description	When calling FormatPartition() function, it might be possible that MBR will be overwritten. This leads into problems with Garbage Collector and Bootpart and therefor should be rejected by the parition driver.
Additional Information	Bootpart expects the MBR to be located at the first usable physical sector. There is a bug in garbage collector that causes a system hanging situation. If the MBR sector has been invalidated and the GC tries to collect this block, GC process will fail as GC thread detect that this block is read-only AFTER he already has selected this block. As this block is marked read-only it should not be possible to invalidate this sector anyway.

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