Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] PV-GRUB: fix blk access at end of disk

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell, le Fri 21 Mar 2014 12:20:04 +0000, a écrit :
> On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 03:02 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Samuel Thibault, le Fri 21 Mar 2014 02:56:56 +0100, a écrit :
> > > GRUB usually always loads a whole disk track, even if that means going
> > > beyond the end of the disk.  We thus have to gracefully return an error,
> > > instead of letting the blkfront go panic.
> > 
> > (yes I was (un)lucky enough to see a generated initrd ending up at the
> > very end of my /...)
> 
> Urk! Acked + applied.
> 
> (but should blkfront not also catch this and return an error?)

Yes, and not only that, but also propagate errors coming from the
blkback.  I have added that to my TODO list.

Samuel

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