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From: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
Reply-To: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: libdisk's Open_Disk() crashes
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>Number:         97164
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [libdisk] libdisk's Open_Disk() crashes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 12 07:40:18 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:    Fri Jan 15 21:19:57 CET 2010
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jan 15 21:19:57 CET 2010
>Originator:     Jean-Yves Lefort
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD jsite.lefort.net 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Tue May 9 22:34:08 CEST 2006 jylefort@jsite.lefort.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JSITE i386
>Description:
Passing a nonexistent disk name to Open_Disk() causes a crash.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
To: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/97164: libdisk's Open_Disk() crashes
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:49:52 +0400 (MSD)

 Hi,
 
 [...]
 > >Description:
 > Passing a nonexistent disk name to Open_Disk() causes a crash.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > >Fix:
 
 Can you elaborate a bit?  What crash: OS panic, user application core
 dump?  What application?  Is test case available?  Do you have a
 backtrace from the core?  Was it at the installation stage?
 
 I'm affraid without this information it will just another PR sitting
 in GNATS forever.
 
 -- 
 Maxim Konovalov

From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/97164: libdisk's Open_Disk() crashes 
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:47:13 +0200

 In message <20060512073252.C2DC2C1A5@jsite.lefort.net>, Jean-Yves Lefort writes
 :
 
 Do not use libdisk.
 
 It is an internal helper library for sysinstall and should only be
 used there.
 
 -- 
 Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
 phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
 FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
 Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

From: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/97164: libdisk's Open_Disk() crashes
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 19:53:50 +0200

 Maybe this information is worth being added to the libdisk manual page?
 
 -- 
 Jean-Yves Lefort
 
 jylefort@FreeBSD.org
 http://lefort.be.eu.org/
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: brueffer 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jan 15 21:18:07 CET 2010 
State-Changed-Why:  
harti added a note about this in r154915. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=97164 
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