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

[Anthony Iliopoulos]

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.

Regards,
Anthony