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Date:      Tue, 26 May 1998 11:09:57 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        seggers@semyam.dinoco.de
Subject:   misc/6759: buggy code in libdisk.a's disk.c
Message-ID:  <199805260909.LAA09390@semyam.dinoco.de>

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>Number:         6759
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       buggy code in libdisk.a's disk.c
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 26 07:20:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Stefan Eggers
>Organization:
none
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386
>Environment:

	The FreeBSD 2.2-stable sources.

>Description:

	The file /usr/src/lib/libdisk/disk.c contains a confusing loop
which seems not to do what it is expected to do.  It is this one:

        p = read_block(fd,0);
        dp = (struct dos_partition*)(p+DOSPARTOFF);
        for(i=0;i<NDOSPART;i++) {
                if (dp->dp_start >= size) continue;
                if (dp->dp_start+dp->dp_size >= size) continue;
                if (!dp->dp_size) continue;

                if (dp->dp_typ == DOSPTYP_ONTRACK) {
                        d->flags |= DISK_ON_TRACK;
                        offset = 63;
                }

        }

	This loop just increments i but besides setting d->flags and
offset if the structure pointed to by dp contains DOSPTYP_ONTRACK in
dp_typ it does nothing.  It just works on the same entry NDOSPART
times which can't be right.

	My guess is dp should have either be used as array with i as
index or should have been incremented after each iteration.  Anyway,
something is wrong here.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Take a look at FreeBSD 2.2-release libdisk in file disk.c at
about line 100.

>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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