Re: [lvm-devel] Re: lvm 0.9.1-beta1 still segfaults vgexport

["Todd M. Roy" <troy@holstein.com>]

Andrea,
  This worked for me on my home machine!!

Thank you!

-- todd --

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:32:34PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > BTW, I can easily reproduce. I was near to go into it yesterday but got
> > interrupted by other issues (like the merging of the 0.9.1-beta1 kernel driver
> > and extraction of the strictly necessary fixes from the 0.9.1-beta1 userspace
> > against 0.9).
> 
> This looks the right fix for the vgexport segfault trivially reproducible
> on 0.9 and 0.9.1_beta1 lvmtools. Now that I see the details of the bug
> it was possible to reproduce it also with `vgdisplay -D xxxxxxx' where
> xxxxxxx is just a random name of a not existent VG.
> 
> --- ./tools/lib/pv_read_all_pv_of_vg.c.~1~      Mon Jan 15 03:35:51 2001
> +++ ./tools/lib/pv_read_all_pv_of_vg.c  Mon Jan 15 04:57:00 2001
> @@ -137,6 +137,11 @@
>           while ( pv_this[np] != NULL) np++;
>        }
> 
> +      if ( np == 0) {
> +         ret = -LVM_EPV_READ_ALL_PV_OF_VG_NP;
> +         goto pv_read_all_pv_of_vg_end;
> +      }
> +
>        /* avoid multiple access pathes */
>        for ( p = 0; pv_this[p] != NULL; p++) {
>              /* avoid multiple access pathes for now (2.4.0-test8)
> 
> I also got a reminder from Marco d'Itri to integrate this hack for
> some more non-x86 platform:
> 
> --- ./tools/lib/pv_get_size.c.~1~       Mon Jan 15 03:35:51 2001
> +++ ./tools/lib/pv_get_size.c   Mon Jan 15 04:04:03 2001
> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
>  #define read_le(x) (x)
>  #endif
> 
> -#if !defined(__alpha__) && !defined(__s390__)
> +#ifdef __i386__
>  int pv_get_size ( char *dev_name, struct partition *part_ptr) {
>     int i = 0;
>     int dir_cache_count = 0;
> 
> Andrea
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