Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix sun partition overflow over 1T | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:56:30 +0100 |
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Ar Gwe, 2006-08-04 am 11:22 -0500, ysgrifennodd Eric Sandeen: > Although sun partition labels aren't supposed to support > 1T, apparently > linux partition editors will allow up to 2T. This can cause problems > in the kernel when these larger partitions are read, due to a signed > int container. > > num_sectors in the sun_disklabel struct is marked as __u32 in 2.4, and > as __be32 in 2.6. However, this is assigned to a signed int in > sun_partition(): > > int num_sectors; > > st_sector = be32_to_cpu(p->start_cylinder) * spc; > num_sectors = be32_to_cpu(p->num_sectors); > > Changing num_sectors to an unsigned int avoids this problem. >
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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