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Re: [PATCH v2] osdep/linux: Fix md array device enumeration


From: Daniel Kiper
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] osdep/linux: Fix md array device enumeration
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:02:18 +0200
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 04:33:16PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> GET_ARRAY_INFO's info.nr_disks does not map to GET_DISK_INFO's
> disk.number, which is an internal kernel index. If an array has had drives
> added, removed, etc, there may be gaps in GET_DISK_INFO's results. But
> since the consumer of devicelist cannot tolerate gaps (it expects to walk
> a NULL-terminated list of device name strings), the devicelist index (j)
> must be tracked separately from the disk.number index (i).
>
> As part of this, since grub wants to only examine active (i.e. present
> and non-failed) disks, the count of remaining disks (remaining) must be
> tracked separately from the devicelist index (j).
>
> Fixes: 49de079bbe1c ("... (grub_util_raid_getmembers): Handle "removed" 
> disks")
> Fixes: 2b00217369ac ("... Added support for RAID and LVM")
> Fixes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1912043
> Fixes: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?59887
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>

You forgot to add a word about empty line change. I will do it for you.
So, Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>...

Thanks for fixing this.

Daniel



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