[PATCH] fix sun partition overflow over 1T

[Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>]

Although sun partition labels aren't supposed to support > 1T, apparently
linux partition editors will allow up to 2T.  This can cause problems
in the kernel when these larger partitions are read, due to a signed
int container.

num_sectors in the sun_disklabel struct is marked as __u32 in 2.4, and 
as __be32 in 2.6.  However, this is assigned to a signed int in
sun_partition():

               int num_sectors;

               st_sector = be32_to_cpu(p->start_cylinder) * spc;
               num_sectors = be32_to_cpu(p->num_sectors);

Changing num_sectors to an unsigned int avoids this problem.

Thanks,

-Eric

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>

Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/partitions/sun.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/partitions/sun.c
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/partitions/sun.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ int sun_partition(struct parsed_partitio
	spc = be16_to_cpu(label->ntrks) * be16_to_cpu(label->nsect);
	for (i = 0; i < 8; i++, p++) {
		unsigned long st_sector;
-		int num_sectors;
+		unsigned int num_sectors;

		st_sector = be32_to_cpu(p->start_cylinder) * spc;
		num_sectors = be32_to_cpu(p->num_sectors);




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