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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/partitions')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/partitions/check.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c index 7408227c49c9..fbeb2f372a93 100644 --- a/fs/partitions/check.c +++ b/fs/partitions/check.c @@ -538,10 +538,23 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev) sector_t from = state->parts[p].from; if (!size) continue; + if (from >= get_capacity(disk)) { + printk(KERN_WARNING + "%s: p%d ignored, start %llu is behind the end of the disk\n", + disk->disk_name, p, (unsigned long long) from); + continue; + } if (from + size > get_capacity(disk)) { + /* + * we can not ignore partitions of broken tables + * created by for example camera firmware, but we + * limit them to the end of the disk to avoid + * creating invalid block devices + */ printk(KERN_WARNING - "%s: p%d exceeds device capacity\n", - disk->disk_name, p); + "%s: p%d size %llu limited to end of disk\n", + disk->disk_name, p, (unsigned long long) size); + size = get_capacity(disk) - from; } res = add_partition(disk, p, from, size, state->parts[p].flags); if (res) { |