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Date:      Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:40:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, re@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.0 dangerous dumps (showstopper?)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212151236400.3276-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212132233001.14352-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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Ok. so 

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Julian Elischer wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > > Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > > > looking at the code in src/sys/i386/i386/dump_machdep.c,
> > > > > 
> > > > > we see:
> > > > >   78         dumplo = di->mediaoffset + di->mediasize - Maxmem *
> > > > > (off_t)PAGE_SIZE;
> > > > >   79         dumplo -= sizeof kdh * 2;
> > > > >   80         i = di->dumper(di->priv, &kdh, 0, dumplo, sizeof kdh);
> > > > >   81         if (i)
> > > > >   82                 printf("\nDump failed writing header (%d)\n", i);
> > > > >   83         dumplo += sizeof kdh;
> > > > >   84         i = 0;
> > > > > 
> > > > > It looks like the following test should go after line 77
> > > > >  
> > > > > 	if (di->mediasize <  ((Maxmem * (off_t)PAGE_SIZE) +
> > > > > 	     (sizeof kdh * 2) + (16*1024)) {
> > > > > 			/* 16K is an arbitrary  buffer
> > > > > 			 * in case the swap part is
> > > > > 			 * the first part
> > > > > 			 */
> > > > > 		printf("\nDump failed. Partition too small.\n");
> > > > > 		return;
> > > > > 	}
> > > > 

Assuming I can make similar patches for the other architectures,
should this be committed?

how does it make its way to RELENG_5_0?




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