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fs/partition/msdos: fix unusable extended partition for > 512B sector 

Smaller size than a minimum blocksize can't be used, after all it's
handled like 0 size.

For extended partition itself, this makes sure to use bigger size than one
logical sector size at least.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Daniel Taylor <Daniel.Taylor@wdc.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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OGAWA Hirofumi 2010-03-23 13:35:50 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3fbf586cf7
commit 8e0cc811e0
1 changed files with 10 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -492,9 +492,16 @@ int msdos_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state, struct block_device *bdev)
if (!size)
continue;
if (is_extended_partition(p)) {
/* prevent someone doing mkfs or mkswap on an
extended partition, but leave room for LILO */
put_partition(state, slot, start, size == 1 ? 1 : 2);
/*
* prevent someone doing mkfs or mkswap on an
* extended partition, but leave room for LILO
* FIXME: this uses one logical sector for > 512b
* sector, although it may not be enough/proper.
*/
sector_t n = 2;
n = min(size, max(sector_size, n));
put_partition(state, slot, start, n);
printk(" <");
parse_extended(state, bdev, start, size);
printk(" >");