On 07/05/2016 09:38 AM, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
For 4K LBA or very large disks, atari_partition can easily get tricked into thinking it has found an Atari partition table. Depending on the data in the disk, it ends up creating partitions with awkward lengths. We saw logs like this while playing with fio. [5.625867] nvme2n1: AHDI p2 [5.625872] nvme2n1: p2 size 2910030523 extends beyond EOD, truncated People has had issues with misinterpreted AHDI partition tables for a long time, see this BSD thread from 1995, for example. https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-atari/1995/11/19/0001.html Since the atari partition, according to the spec, doesn't even support sector sizes with more than 512, a quick sanity check is reasonable to just bail out early, before even attempting to read sector 0.
Added for 4.8, thanks. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
