fs/partition/msdos: fix unusable extended partition for > 512B sector

Smaller size than a minimum blocksize can't be used, after all it's
handled like 0 size.

For extended partition itself, this makes sure to use bigger size than one
logical sector size at least.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Taylor <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/fs/partitions/msdos.c b/fs/partitions/msdos.c
index b78385840a55704de5f113f051f535fd97c7abf3..90be97f1f5a8c8ce5cf737c3e52020e0e516a291 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/partitions/msdos.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/msdos.c
@@ -492,9 +492,16 @@ int msdos_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state, struct block_device *bdev)
                if (!size)
                        continue;
                if (is_extended_partition(p)) {
-                       /* prevent someone doing mkfs or mkswap on an
-                          extended partition, but leave room for LILO */
-                       put_partition(state, slot, start, size == 1 ? 1 : 2);
+                       /*
+                        * prevent someone doing mkfs or mkswap on an
+                        * extended partition, but leave room for LILO
+                        * FIXME: this uses one logical sector for > 512b
+                        * sector, although it may not be enough/proper.
+                        */
+                       sector_t n = 2;
+                       n = min(size, max(sector_size, n));
+                       put_partition(state, slot, start, n);
+
                        printk(" <");
                        parse_extended(state, bdev, start, size);
                        printk(" >");