Ar Gwe, 2006-08-04 am 11:22 -0500, ysgrifennodd Eric Sandeen:
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
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