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From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
To: Nikhil Kshirsagar <nkshirsa@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mdadm --detail --scan causes SIGABRT
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:48:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wrfj8tydue97.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2F74FF87-7E89-4452-8F90-53923B1B2E80@redhat.com> (Nikhil Kshirsagar's message of "Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:41:11 -0400 (EDT)")

Nikhil Kshirsagar <nkshirsa@redhat.com> writes:
> Hi Jes ,
>
> Would it help to examine the core file ? It's present on the machine
> and location specified in the bz comments . That's how I saw the data
> structure that had the issue . Indeed there are other device names
> where the name does not overflow since they are 32 bytes (which is why
> I chose this value) or where the name *does* get truncated. However
> this truncation does not seem to happen for de->d_name which is then
> copied into dev->sys_name.
>
> As for allocating an appropriate size on the heap instead of a static
> array it does make sense and I can correct the fix to do that but
> there are lots of other device names which are static arrays. So which
> ones do we change ?

This is the tricky part, sys_name is used in a lot of places in
different ways.

Do you know if they have a /dev/oczpcie_11_0_ssd on the system, and if
they do, how did that device get created?

Cheers,
Jes

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-10 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-10  4:20 [PATCH] mdadm --detail --scan causes SIGABRT Nikhil Kshirsagar
2016-06-10 15:43 ` Nikhil Kshirsagar
2016-06-10 17:11 ` Jes Sorensen
2016-06-10 17:41   ` Nikhil Kshirsagar
2016-06-10 17:48     ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2016-06-10 18:12       ` Nikhil Kshirsagar
2016-06-13 12:32         ` Nikhil Kshirsagar
2016-06-14 17:42 ` Jes Sorensen

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