GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #9954, The memcheck function in char_io.c...

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bug #9954: The memcheck function in char_io.c must use unsigned

Submitter:	None
Submitted:	Tue 10 Aug 2004 10:56:03 AM UTC
Votes:	100
Category:	Booting	Severity:	Major
Priority:	5 - Normal	Item Group:	Software Error
Status:	None	Privacy:	Public
Assigned to:	None	Originator Name:	Goswin von Brederlow
Originator Email:	-email is unavailable-	Open/Closed:	Closed
Release:	None	Release:	0.95+cvs20040624
Reproducibility:	None	Planned Release:	None

Sat 15 Dec 2007 01:33:03 PM UTC, comment #1:  We've moved to GRUB 2 as a development platform. Please can you check if this bug still applies there, and if it does, reopen it? Thanks	Robert Millan <robertmh>
Tue 10 Aug 2004 10:56:03 AM UTC, original submission:   Hi, in char_io.c the memcheck function uses "int addr" to store addresses and does bounds checking on it. On systems with over 2G of ram the "int addr" will be negative and the bounds checking will fail producing an "ERR_WONT_FIT". The attached patch changes the addr and len argument to unsigned long long as well as the two helper functions. MfG Goswin	Anonymous

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

Attached Files

file #1641:  2g_limit.diff added by None (1KiB - application/octet-stream - Patch to fix boot failures with >2GB ram)

 

Depends on the following items: None found

Items that depend on this one: None found

 

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-email is unavailable- added by robertmh (Posted a comment)

 

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Follow 3 latest changes.

Date	Changed by	Updated Field	Previous Value	=>	Replaced by
2007-12-15	robertmh	Open/Closed	Open		Closed
2005-11-05	jbbernar	Carbon-Copy	-		Added jbbernar
2004-08-10	None	Attached File	-		Added 2g_limit.diff, #1574

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