On 02 July 2023 at 04:17 am, Michael Schmitz wrote:
I'm sorry to say I cannot see a new RDB partition bug her, just the result of undefined behaviour due to overflowing a 32 bit nr_sect size calculation in the old RDB code.
Hello Michael,
Thanks a lot for your explanation!
Actually, we need your patch because there is a very old bug but there are some endusers with RDB disks with Linux partitions. If I apply your patch to our kernels, then I need an enduser friendly solution for fixing the issue with their file systems.
Do you have a solution for the enduser (consumer)? How can they fix their file systems? The next issue is, if an enduser uses an old unpatched kernel with a partition, created with a new patched kernel. I don't know how can I handle this issue in the consumer support.
I can't help all endusers and some are not active in forums etc.
Thanks, Christian