RE: [PATCH] fix extended partition detection

["Hawrylewicz Czarnowski, Przemyslaw" <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com>]

Neil,

Could you please take a look at this patch and possibly include it to your devel-3.2 branch?
Thanks in advance

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Williams, Dan J
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 2:39 AM
> To: neilb@suse.de
> Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org; Wasilewski, Krzysztof; Hawrylewicz
> Czarnowski, Przemyslaw
> Subject: [PATCH] fix extended partition detection
> 
> # mdadm --detail --export /dev/md127p1
> 
> Before:
> MD_LEVEL=raid5
> MD_DEVICES=4
> MD_METADATA=0.90
> 
> After:
> MD_LEVEL=raid5
> MD_DEVICES=4
> MD_CONTAINER=/dev/md0
> MD_MEMBER=0
> MD_UUID=55746a20:925d24a7:4f9bd7e2:9c9a411f
> 
> We parse the symlink target with a format:
> 
> ../../block/mdXXX/mdXXXpYY
> 
> ...and need the second '/' from the end of the string to read detect a
> 'md' device.
> 
> Reported-by: Krzysztof Wasilewski <krzysztof.wasilewski@intel.com>
> Cc: Przemyslaw Czarnowski <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> If there are any 3.1.x stable releases planned I would consider this a
> candidate as it allows custom name partitions to be created by udev
> (like /dev/md/vol1p1).  I believe this was masked by the usage of mdp
> devices.
> 
> On 3.2 it exposes a segfault as we try to get the container_content() of
> 'mbr' metadata.
> 
> --
> Dan
> 
>  util.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/util.c b/util.c
> index c9bdd6e..75a5e6d 100644
> --- a/util.c
> +++ b/util.c
> @@ -1664,7 +1664,7 @@ int stat2devnum(struct stat *st)
>  		link[n] = 0;
>  		cp = strrchr(link, '/');
>  		if (cp) *cp = 0;
> -		cp = strchr(link, '/');
> +		cp = strrchr(link, '/');
>  		if (cp && strncmp(cp, "/md", 3) == 0)
>  			return devname2devnum(cp+1);
>  	}