[merged mm-nonmm-stable] fat-allow-0xe9-near-jump-in-fat_read_static_bpb.patch removed from -mm tree
Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:05:29 -0700
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The quilt patch titled
Subject: FAT: allow 0xE9 near jump in fat_read_static_bpb()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
fat-allow-0xe9-near-jump-in-fat_read_static_bpb.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Ziran Zhang <[email protected]>
Subject: FAT: allow 0xE9 near jump in fat_read_static_bpb()
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:59:41 +0800
fat_read_static_bpb() only accepts a short jump as a valid bootstrap code
signature for DOS 1.x volumes when the dos1xfloppy mount option is used.
However, according to the Microsoft fatgen103.doc, the BS_jmpBoot field
has two allowed forms: 0xEB 0x?? 0x90 (short jump + NOP) and 0xE9 0x??
0x?? (near jump). The specification explicitly states that either form
is acceptable.
This patch relaxes the check to also accept 0xE9 as the first byte of the
jump instruction.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ziran Zhang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
fs/fat/inode.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/fat/inode.c~fat-allow-0xe9-near-jump-in-fat_read_static_bpb
+++ a/fs/fat/inode.c
@@ -1479,8 +1479,9 @@ static int fat_read_static_bpb(struct su
int error = -EINVAL;
unsigned i;
- /* 16-bit DOS 1.x reliably wrote bootstrap short-jmp code */
- if (b->ignored[0] != 0xeb || b->ignored[2] != 0x90) {
+ /* 16-bit DOS 1.x reliably wrote bootstrap short-jmp or near-jmp code */
+ if ((b->ignored[0] != 0xeb || b->ignored[2] != 0x90) &&
+ (b->ignored[0] != 0xe9)) {
if (!silent)
fat_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
"%s; no bootstrapping code", notdos1x);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are