Re: Bug#632048: segfault in grub-setup

[Stephane Chazelas]

2011-09-06 09:18:57 +0100, Colin Watson:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:39:24AM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> > I do get a segfault as well when doing a grub-setup/grub-install
> > on a mdraid with 1.2 metadata.
> > 
> > The segv is in:
> > 
> > grub_util_biosdisk_is_floppy() because the disk->id for the root
> > device is not a bios disk id, but a big number that is the
> > "array id". The patch below seems to fix it for me, though I
> > can't tell it's the right fix or not (probably not).
> 
> This fix makes sense to me; calling grub_util_biosdisk_is_floppy on
> disks that aren't GRUB_DISK_DEVICE_BIOSDISK_ID doesn't make sense.
> grub-devel, second opinion?
> 
> > --- a/util/grub-setup.c     2011-09-05 12:11:31.864955442 +0100
> > +++ b/util/grub-setup.c     2011-09-05 13:00:24.891368760 +0100
> > @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@
> >      /* If DEST_DRIVE is a hard disk, enable the workaround, which is
> >         for buggy BIOSes which don't pass boot drive correctly. Instead,
> >         they pass 0x00 or 0x01 even when booted from 0x80.  */
> > -    if (!allow_floppy && !grub_util_biosdisk_is_floppy (dest_dev->disk))
> > +    if (!allow_floppy && dest_dev->disk->dev->id == 
> > GRUB_DISK_DEVICE_BIOSDISK_ID && !grub_util_biosdisk_is_floppy 
> > (dest_dev->disk))
> >        /* Replace the jmp (2 bytes) with double nop's.  */
> >        *boot_drive_check = 0x9090;
> >    }
[...]

Well, anyway, even after that patch, it still doesn't work

grub-install /dev/md0
reports success for nothing is written to any disk.

grub-install /dev/sda
          or /dev/sdb

doesn't work because it complains about a partition-less disk.

Looks like it's not supported. Strange, as when started, grub
can happily see files on 1.2 raids (using mdraid1x). Or did I
miss something.

I'll have to revert to 0.9 metadata for now.

-- 
Stephane