Re: kern/38431: getparts in dkwedge_mbr.c seems to use stale data

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38431; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/38431: getparts in dkwedge_mbr.c seems to use stale data
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:16:28 +0100

 On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:45:00AM +0000, yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost 
wrote:
 > >Number:         38431
 > >Synopsis:       getparts in dkwedge_mbr.c seems to use stale data
 ...
 > >Description:
 >      getparts() recursively calls getparts(), which overwrites the
 >      contents of a->buf.
 
 It is probably worth pointing out that the extended partition table
 is a linked list, not a 4-way tree.
 This means the code should be using an interative parser (like all
 the other code that reads mbr tables).
 
        David
 
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