Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

[Julian Andres Klode]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 xfsprogs

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 11:11:53PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop at suse.com> (2023-10-30):
> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 04:19:32PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> > > Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop at suse.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 09:02:01PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> > > ...
> > > >>   error: invalid XFS directory entry.
> > > ...
> > > > This issue exists independently of the large extent counter, and it is
> > > > related to grub commit ef7850c75 ("fs/xfs: Fix issues found while
> > > > fuzzing the XFS filesystem"). That's actually the issue described in
> > > > #1051543.
> > > 
> > > Ah, yes -- good point.
> > > 
> > > > There's a proposed fix at [1], and it works as expected with that patch
> > > > applied.
> > > ...
> > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/grub-devel/20231018030347.36174-1-nuxi@vault24.org/
> > > 
> > > I can confirm that having applied both patches:
> > > 
> > >   https://salsa.debian.org/philh/grub2/-/pipelines/596346
> > > 
> > > it now succeeds at both installing grub, and then booting the system:
> > > 
> > >   https://openqa.debian.net/tests/200503#details
> > 
> > Thanks for confirming, perhaps then you can add your tested-by in the
> > respective patches upstream.
> > 
> > BTW, another handy way to test if this works is via grub-mount.
> 
> Any chance we could have an updated grub2 package to fix this?

The final grub 2.12 that includes the fix should hit unstable in the
middle of January. As you might be aware many are busy with family
stuff and holiday celebrations right now.

As always though it stands to reason that this is a change that should
(have been) reverted in xfsprogs first until a grub that understands it
has been released in a stable point release such that you can use a
stable grub to inspect an XFS filesystem created by a trixie xfsprogs.

It seems the bug has been wrongly reassigned instead of being cloned
and reassigned, so I'm cloning it back to xfsprogs.

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