Bug#685625: libgeom: may cause segfault of grub-probe

2012-12-29 Thread Jeff Epler
If it's a question of minimal impact to fix the specific crash that grub-probe encounters, then there are two more minimal ways to fix this specific problem that come to mind: replace reallocf with realloc---but in the unlikely case that realloc fails, it doesn't deallocate the argument (this is

Bug#685625: libgeom: may cause segfault of grub-probe

2012-12-29 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 19:44:41 -0800, Christoph Egger wrote: I see there's a patch in this bug report. Do you think this is a solution for wheezy? If so I'd volunteer to upload a new version of freebsd-libs I've checked now the interaction of the libbsd-overlay and freebsd-glue, and they do

Bug#685625: libgeom: may cause segfault of grub-probe

2012-12-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, I agree that libbsd and freebsd-glue seem to conflict with each other, but neither one of them by itself has everything needed for freebsd-libs. So Jeff's patch is the least intrusive way to fix this, and that's what we have to go with at this late stage. It fixes a bug we're seeing now and

Bug#685625: libgeom: may cause segfault of grub-probe

2012-12-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 29/12/12 16:47, Steven Chamberlain wrote: I can provide a similar patch for freebsd-utils which has the same issues, but the only problem I could confirm yet was a segfault in ifconfig bridge configuration (#696514) due to it. Attached is a similar patch for freebsd-utils, fixing implicit

Bug#685625: libgeom: may cause segfault of grub-probe

2012-12-29 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi all! I'd like to hear -release@'s opinion on that. Do you prefer the smaller patch only fixing the implicit declarations/includes where we know it has caused this segfaults or can I upload the full change below? Regards Christoph Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org writes: This is

Bug#685625: libgeom: may cause segfault of grub-probe

2012-12-29 Thread Christoph Egger
Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org writes: I'd like to hear -release@'s opinion on that. Do you prefer the smaller patch only fixing the implicit declarations/includes where we know it has caused this segfaults or can I upload the full change below? Oh sorry I should read more carefull.

Bug#685625: libgeom: may cause segfault of grub-probe

2012-12-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 29/12/12 23:56, Christoph Egger wrote: Steven, SVN has fixes for #694374 and #695679 already. do you intent these for wheezy? Yes, please. They are not RC severity but sufficiently important for release, and in particular #695679 should be fixed for people doing squeeze-wheezy upgrades of

Bug#685625: libgeom: may cause segfault of grub-probe

2012-12-28 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! I see there's a patch in this bug report. Do you think this is a solution for wheezy? If so I'd volunteer to upload a new version of freebsd-libs Regards Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact