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Re: kern/53217: -current: dumping to wedges on GPT disks broken



The following reply was made to PR kern/53217; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/53217: -current: dumping to wedges on GPT disks broken
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:53:58 +0200

 On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 01:50:01PM +0000, Frank Kardel wrote:
 
 >  dk.c:dkdump()
 >      1624         bdev = bdevsw_lookup(sc->sc_pdev);
 >      1625         rv = (*bdev->d_dump)(sc->sc_pdev, blkno + 
 >  sc->sc_offset, va, size);
 
 OK, I missed the parent device here.
 
 >  In dksubr.c dkdump (not the wedge code, the general disk support) then 
 >  examines as I quoted
 >        796         /* Convert to disk sectors.  Request must be a 
 >  multiple of size. */
 >       797         part = DISKPART(dev);
 >  ...
 >       806         p = &lp->d_partitions[part];
 
 And here accessing the label at all is clearly a bug.
 
 We need to remove that check and move it into the callers.
 
 Martin
 


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