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

[John Hesterberg <jh@sgi.com>]

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