You have been subscribed to a public bug by Eric Desrochers (slashd): [Impact]
Parted is crashing (core dumping) during resize operation, while changing the end position of a partition. [Test Case] root@ubuntu-focal:~# parted /dev/sda resizepart 1 100% Warning: Partition /dev/sda1 is being used. Are you sure you want to continue? Yes/No? yes End? [42.9GB]? free(): invalid pointer Aborted (core dumped) [Where problems could occur] As per resize documentation: "Note that this does not modify any filesystem present in the partition." "When growing a partition you will want to grow the filesystem afterwards" FS-wise the resize operation won't try to take action on the FS itself. It would need to be done by the admin as a separate step. If any problem arise, it will be limited to the resize functionality of parted. In this case, the impact would be ~ similar to the actual parted state (before this SRU), and one won't be able to resize as requested. [Other Info] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=ca845aeeddb17343c9289816833ca352f7c0d87b # Upstream repo: git describe --tags ca845ae v3.3-5-gca845ae # Ubuntu $ rmadison parted parted | 3.2-15ubuntu0.1 | xenial-updates parted | 3.2-20ubuntu0.2 | bionic-updates parted | 3.3-4 | focal parted | 3.3-4 | groovy parted | 3.3-4 | hirsute [Original Description] parted crashes with invalid pointer on resizepart on focal root@ubuntu-focal:~# parted /dev/sda resizepart 1 100% Warning: Partition /dev/sda1 is being used. Are you sure you want to continue? Yes/No? yes End? [42.9GB]? free(): invalid pointer Aborted (core dumped) Discussion: https://www.mail-archive.com/bug- [email protected]/msg04962.html Fix: https://github.com/bcl/parted/commit/883813c365482d06d05a1998e066792c48156f23 ** Affects: parted (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Eric Desrochers (slashd) Status: In Progress ** Affects: parted (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Medium Assignee: Eric Desrochers (slashd) Status: In Progress ** Affects: parted (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Medium Assignee: Eric Desrochers (slashd) Status: In Progress ** Affects: parted (Ubuntu Focal) Importance: Medium Assignee: Eric Desrochers (slashd) Status: In Progress ** Affects: parted (Ubuntu Groovy) Importance: Medium Assignee: Eric Desrochers (slashd) Status: In Progress ** Affects: parted (Ubuntu Hirsute) Importance: Medium Assignee: Eric Desrochers (slashd) Status: In Progress ** Tags: seg sts -- parted crashes with invalid pointer on resizepart on focal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1905579 You received this bug notification because you are a member of STS Sponsors, which is subscribed to the bug report. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sts-sponsors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sts-sponsors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
