From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] linux/fs/partitions/efi.c error handling
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:30:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905108@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698806044@msgid-missing>
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:11:19AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> I was testing w/ some disks that appear to have bad partition
> tables and was getting the following error messages:
> SCSI device sdt: 35566480 512-byte hdwr sectors (18210 MB)
> sdt:<4> Warning: Disk has a valid GPT signature but invalid PMBR.
> Use GNU Parted to correct disk.
> Unfortunately, that's not where the problem stopped. I got
> random pointer dereference problems, and was apparently having
> data structures freed out from under them. Turns out the
> find_valid_gpt() was freeing data structures more than once and
> passing back pointers to freed structures. Patch below.
Is it just me or is this getting resent every couple of hours?
... something has gone horribly wrong.
Cheers,
Bill
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2002-02-14 17:11 [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] linux/fs/partitions/efi.c error handling Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-14 19:05 ` Matt_Domsch
2002-02-15 14:30 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-02-15 15:09 ` Alex Williamson
2002-02-15 20:00 ` David Mosberger
2002-02-16 0:46 ` John Hesterberg
2002-02-16 0:52 ` David Mosberger
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