[parted-devel] [PATCH] libparted: handle truncated GPT disks properly

[Brian C. Lane]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 01:35:29PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> If a disk had been truncated, or for some other reason the GPT
> indicated it was larger than it appeared to be, parted silently
> failed to read the partition table.  This patch fixes two errors:
> First, gpt_read_headers() would attempt to read beyond the end of
> the disk since the primary GPT header claims that is where the
> backup lies.  It will now truncate the backup location to the end
> of the disk.  Second, _parse_header() now throws a proper exception
> indicating the nature of the problem and giving the user the chance
> to fix or ignore it.
> ---

Ack, thanks for fixing this.

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