Confirmed as still affecting Jaunty by report in bug #329880.
It appears Linus Torvalds rejected my patch when it was pushed from
Andrew Morton's -mm tree to mainline in May 2007:
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From: a...@linux-foundation.org
To: li...@tjworld.net, mm-comm...@vger.kernel.org
Subject: - filesystem-disk-errors-at-boot-time-caused-by-probe.patch
removed from -mm tree
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 19:34:23 -0700 (Wed, 03:34 BST)
The patch titled
filesystem: Disk Errors at boot-time caused by probe of partitions
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
filesystem-disk-errors-at-boot-time-caused-by-probe.patch
This patch was dropped because it was nacked
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From: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
To: a...@linux-foundation.org
Cc: li...@tjworld.net, b...@stusta.de, Jens Axboe <jens.ax...@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 012/455] filesystem: Disk Errors at boot-time caused
by probe of partitions
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 09:19:32 -0700 (PDT) (17:19 BST)
On Tue, 8 May 2007, a...@linux-foundation.org wrote:
>
> From: TJ <li...@tjworld.net>
I don't really like these kinds of addresses. Who is TJ? When I google for
that name, I find a lot of hits, but all the links to tjworld.net are
down.
I also think the patch is wrong.
IIRC, we cannot trust the "capacity" data, because not all disks report it
correctly. If we did, we'd just do the check in read_dev_sector() instead.
So I'm dropping this. I might be wrong about the capacity thing, we may
have fixed it (Jens cc'd). But if the capacity is trustworthy, why not
just do the trivial check in read_dev_sector to protect against invalid
extended ones? And in add_partitions()?
Linus
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** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => TJ (intuitivenipple)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Disk Read Errors during boot-time caused by probe of invalid partitions
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/77734
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