https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=371657 User kasievers@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=371657#c22 Kay Sievers <kasievers@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |jeffm@novell.com --- Comment #22 from Kay Sievers <kasievers@novell.com> 2008-10-07 04:48:28 MDT --- The "attempt to access beyond end of device" is caused by the kernel partition table parser, allowing partitions to be created, which pretend to be larger than the entire physical disk. The result of BLKGETSIZE64 and "size" in sysfs returns invalid values. Userspace could find that out by doing the consistency check, the kernel didn't do, by reading the disk size, reading the start and size of the partition, and check if it's in the limits of the disk. But doing that sound really like the wrong solution. Shouldn't the kernel partition table scanner just prevent the entire and invalid partition from showing up, or at least limit the partition size to the physical end of the disk? Jeff, any idea? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.