linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] block: add verifier for cmdline partition

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Date:   Tue, 5 Jun 2018 17:38:40 +0800
From:   Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>
To:     axboe@...nel.dk, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, pombredanne@...b.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, caizhiyong@...ilicon.com,
        rdunlap@...radead.org, jiangheng@...ilicon.com,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] block: add verifier for cmdline partition

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:06:37AM +0800, Wang YanQing wrote:
> I meet strange filesystem corruption issue recently, the reason
> is there are overlaps partitions in cmdline partition argument.
> 
> This patch add verifier for cmdline partition, then if there are
> overlaps partitions, cmdline_partition will log a warning. We don't
> treat overlaps partition as a error:
> "
> Caizhiyong <caizhiyong@...ilicon.com> said:
> Partition overlap was intentionally designed in this cmdline partition.
> reference http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2013-August/048092.html
> "
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>
> ---
>  Changes
>  v4-v5:
>  1:Delete unnecessary blank line at begin and end of logs.
>  2:Delete newline character in log, pr_* will add newline
>    automatically.
> 
>  v3-v4:
>  1:Fix grammar typo, reported by Randy Dunlap.
>  2:Delete unnecessary type casting, reported by Caizhiyong.
>  3:Record the reason why we can't treat overlapping partitions
>    as errors into changelog.
> 
>  v2-v3:
>  1:Fix log one pair of overlaps partitions twice in cmdline_parts_verifier.
>  2:Fix out of bound access in cmdline_parts_verifier.
> 
>  v1-v2:
>  1:Don't treat overlaps partition as a error, but log a warning.
> 
>  Hi! Jens Axboe
> 
>  What is your suggestion?
Hi! All

I just want to know what is the status about this patch?

ACK or NACK is welcome.

Thanks