Re: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] linux/fs/partitions/efi.c error handling

John Hesterberg
2002-02-16T00:46:14Z

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:00:31PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:11:19 -0700, Alex Williamson <alex_williamson@hp.com> said:
>
> Alex> I was testing w/ some disks that appear to have bad
> Alex> partition tables and was getting the following error messages:
>
> Alex> SCSI device sdt: 35566480 512-byte hdwr sectors (18210 MB)
> Alex> sdt:<4> Warning: Disk has a valid GPT signature but invalid
> Alex> PMBR. Use GNU Parted to correct disk.
>
> Alex> Unfortunately, that's not where the problem stopped. I got
> Alex> random pointer dereference problems, and was apparently having
> Alex> data structures freed out from under them. Turns out the
> Alex> find_valid_gpt() was freeing data structures more than once
> Alex> and passing back pointers to freed structures. Patch below.
>
> Applied, thanks!
>
> --david

So the key to getting things applied to keep sending the exact same
message over and over and over?

:-)

John