If the dos partition table is corrupted, kpartx can just keep creating the same partitions until it runs out of partition numbers. This check catches the recursion. Signed-off-by: Cedric Buissart <cbuissar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kpartx/dos.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kpartx/dos.c b/kpartx/dos.c index 64b27b6..4985152 100644 --- a/kpartx/dos.c +++ b/kpartx/dos.c @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ read_extended_partition(int fd, struct partition *ep, int en, for (i=0; i<2; i++) { memcpy(&p, bp + 0x1be + i * sizeof (p), sizeof (p)); if (is_extended(p.sys_type)) { - if (p.nr_sects && !moretodo) { + if (p.start_sect && p.nr_sects && !moretodo) { next = start + sector_size_mul * le32_to_cpu(p.start_sect); moretodo = 1; } -- 1.8.3.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel