Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | Date | Wed, 3 May 2006 16:00:55 -0500 | | From | "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <> | | Subject | [PATCH] make kernel ignore bogus partitions |
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Patch 1/1 Sometimes partitions claim to be larger than the reported capacity of a disk device. This patch makes the kernel ignore those partitions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Please consider this for inclusion.
fs/partitions/check.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.14/fs/partitions/check.c~partition_vs_capacity 2006-01-06 09:32:14.000000000 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.14-root/fs/partitions/check.c 2006-01-06 11:24:50.000000000 -0600 @@ -382,6 +382,11 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *di sector_t from = state->parts[p].from; if (!size) continue; + if (from+size-1 > get_capacity(disk)) { + printk(" %s: p%d exceeds device capacity, ignoring.\n", + disk->disk_name, p); + continue; + } add_partition(disk, p, from, size); #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD if (state->parts[p].flags) _
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