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Hi!

Andre Noll schrieb:
> sorry if this is already known/fixed: Assemble() is called from mdadm.c with
> the "update" argument equal to NULL:
> 
>       Assemble(ss, array_list->devname, mdfd, array_list, configfile,
>               NULL, readonly, runstop, NULL, verbose-quiet, force);
> 
> But in Assemble.c we have
> 
>       if (ident->uuid_set && (!update && strcmp(update, "uuid")!= 0) && ...
> 
> which yields a segfault in glibc's strcmp().
> 
I just found the same problem after upgrading to mdadm-2.2
The logic to test for update not being NULL seems to be
reversed.

I created a small patch which seems to cure the problem
(see attached file)

HTH

- - andreas

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Index: mdadm/Assemble.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/repository/distribution/Utilities/mdadm/Assemble.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.7
diff -u -r1.1.1.7 Assemble.c
--- mdadm/Assemble.c    5 Dec 2005 05:56:20 -0000       1.1.1.7
+++ mdadm/Assemble.c    31 Dec 2005 15:01:34 -0000
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
                }
                if (dfd >= 0) close(dfd);
 
-               if (ident->uuid_set && (!update && strcmp(update, "uuid")!= 0) 
&&
+               if (ident->uuid_set && (update && strcmp(update, "uuid")!= 0) &&
                    (!super || same_uuid(info.uuid, ident->uuid, 
tst->ss->swapuuid)==0)) {
                        if ((inargv && verbose >= 0) || verbose > 0)
                                fprintf(stderr, Name ": %s has wrong uuid.\n",

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