Re: [PATCH v3] block: add check that partition length needs to be aligned with block size

[Damien Le Moal]

On 6/29/23 10:04, Yu Kuai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 在 2023/06/29 1:07, Min Li 写道:
>> On Mon, Jun 28, 2023 at 04:48:36PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig  wrote:
>>> They are long long in the UAPI, which is weird but has been that way
>>> for a long time.  So I think we need checks for negative values
>>> before they are shifted and converted to a sector_t.
>>
>> Do you mean that we need to check if p.start and p.length are negative?
>>
> 
> Perhaps this patch will make sense.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230525072041.3701176-1-zhongjinghua@xxxxxxxxxx/

+ adding to it the logical block size alignment checks.

> 
> Thanks,
> Kuai
>> Thanks for your reply
>>
>> Min li
>> .
>>
> 

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research