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@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Cameron <steve.cameron@xxxxxx>
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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