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

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Message-ID: <b23c64e5-6768-9387-517c-59deded8a331@kernel.dk>
Date:   Tue, 5 Jun 2018 09:21:15 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>, 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 5/9/18 9:06 PM, 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
> "

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe