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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:30:29 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] linux/fs/partitions/efi.c error handling
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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