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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:57:37 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: device name checking on device registration
Message-ID:  <4CB4CBC1.40301@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4CB4646F.3000703@feral.com>
References:  <LA593D$584FAABD3BF6073282A094BECDF03362@libero.it>	<20101012081744.GA48485@jh> <4CB4646F.3000703@feral.com>

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on 12/10/2010 16:36 Matthew Jacob said the following:
>  Good workaround, still a nasty surprising bug.

Yeah.  I also would prefer ignoring such a partition or somehow sanitizing its
name or etc.  panic(9) on bad internal state of a kernel sounds appropriate,
panic(9) on bad input sounds like trouble.

P.S. Matthew, it seems like you have a really unhelpful mail client program:
first, it top-posts :-)
second, it doesn't always attribute quoted text.

It also doesn't cc in replies the addresses that were in to or cc of original
message, which may or may not be a good thing.

>> On 2010-10-11, barbara wrote:
>>> The panic is caused by:
>>> g_dev_taste(): make_dev_p() failed (gp->name=ext2fs//, error=22)
>>> as I have a linux partition (I swear, it's for my mom!) on the same machine.
>>> As I don't care about that partition (being ext4 I can't even mount
>>> it), is there any solution other then applying the patch after every
>>> csup?
>> If you don't need ext2fs labels you can put the following line to
>> /boot/loader.conf as a workaround:
>>
>> kern.geom.label.ext2fs.enable=0

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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