Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:39:38PM +0200, Stefan Krah wrote: > > in getsize() the BLKGETSIZE and BLKGETSIZE64 ioctls are called > > with signed args, see the patch below. > > Ah.. I've already fixed this bug in other place in blockdev > (--getsize, --getsize64). > > I see same signed args in fdisk/disksize.c :-( We need to cleanup this > code, remove all getsize() versions and create libs/blkdevsize.c > (see TODO).
It would be great to have an implementation that is guaranteed to work with older kernels. The getsize() of e2fsprogs for example doesn't trust BLKGETSIZE64 for kernels < 2.6. > > Since the EFBIG change in getsize() sz might contain garbage, so there > > should be additional error checks, something like (yes, this is ugly): > > I think you needn't extra check, you can zeroize "sz" when the first > ioctl() returns an error. I can't see that. If the second ioctl() also returns with an error, getsize() will return success and a sector count of sz, which then would be 0. It just struck me that if you use `blockdev --getsize64 ...`, the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl() is trusted without the additional (b == 0 || b == sz) check (workaround?). Stefan Krah - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
