Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 01:39:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/6988: swapon succeeds on bogus partitions Message-ID: <199806190539.BAA18761@rtfm.ziplink.net>
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>Number: 6988 >Category: bin >Synopsis: swapon succeeds on bogus partitions >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 18 22:40:00 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Mikhail Teterin >Organization: >Release: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386 >Environment: >Description: mi@rtfm:pk/pcscreen/public (1088) pstat -s Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 32768 9572 23068 29% Interleaved /dev/sd1s1b 65536 9420 55988 14% Interleaved /dev/sd7s1b 32768 9128 23512 28% Interleaved /dev/sd8s1b 32767 9232 23407 28% Interleaved /dev/sd7b 32768 128 32512 0% Interleaved /dev/sd8b 32767 212 32427 1% Interleaved Total 228607 37692 190915 16% There is no sd7b or sd8b -- they are sd7s1b and sd8s1b respectively. Yet, swapon allowed me to add one after another, and they seem to now be used for paging! Without ``swapon -u'' I can not even stop this non-sence without reboot, which is what I'm going to do as soon as I finish typing this. I think, the machine can panic any time now... >How-To-Repeat: See description >Fix: Watch those partitions... >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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