Re: grub 1.96 svn 20080813 and circular lvm2 metadata

[Hans Lambermont]

Felix Zielcke wrote on 20080828:

> Am Donnerstag, den 28.08.2008, 13:14 +0200 schrieb Hans Lambermont:
>> My colleague Jan Derk Gerlings found a bug in the way grub 1.96, svn
>> version 20080813 (and earlier) reads the circular lvm2 metadata
>> buffer.
> 
> Great, on Debian BTS we have 2 bugs [0] related to LVM and I wasn't
> able yet to trace them down, but that could be the reason for them.
> 
>> Shall we attempt to fix this and send a patch ?
> 
> Yes please do :)

Please find the patch attached, this was tested with circular metadata
and the segfault in grub-setup is gone and the system boots fine.

> Because GRUB is a GNU project, you have to obey the GNU Coding Standards [1]

Ok, I hope I got it right. If not please let me know.

regards,
   Hans Lambermont
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