Storage probing problem

S.Çağlar Onur caglar at pardus.org.tr
Wed Oct 4 13:08:16 PDT 2006


04 Eki 2006 Çar 22:41 tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız:
> Thanks. I think the issue is that the users who run into this have
> broken partition extended tables, e.g. we error out in the function
> part_table_probe_msdos_extended() and thus return NULL for the extended
> partition table. We then stuff a NULL pointer into the entries list and
> that's causing the crash. This patch should fix at least the crashes.
>
> What is the impact of broken partition tables for those users? Well,
> only that they'll miss some volume.partition.* properties. No biggie at
> this point in the game. We should probably report somewhere that the
> partition table is detected as being broken. Hmm... will think about
> that.
>
> Anyway, let me know if this works. Thanks.

Yep, it solves whole issue at once :)

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