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authorOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>2010-03-23 21:35:50 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-25 00:31:22 +0100
commit8e0cc811e0f8029a7225372fb0951fab102c012f (patch)
tree05fa64ca2e4f5087552a799fcea899a40dd9e19a /fs/partitions
parentfs/partitions/msdos: add support for large disks (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/partitions')
-rw-r--r--fs/partitions/msdos.c13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/partitions/msdos.c b/fs/partitions/msdos.c
index b78385840a55..90be97f1f5a8 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/msdos.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/msdos.c
@@ -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(" >");