Increase OSF partition limit from 8 to 18

commit 34d211a2d5df4984a35b18d8ccacbe1d10abb067 upstream.

It turns out that while a maximum of 8 partitions may be what people
"should" have had, you can actually fit up to 18 entries(*) in a sector.

And some people clearly were taking advantage of that, like Michael
Cree, who had ten partitions on one of his OSF disks.

(*) The OSF partition data starts at byte offset 64 in the first sector,
    and the array of 16-byte partition entries start at offset 148 in
    the on-disk partition structure.

Reported-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/fs/partitions/osf.c b/fs/partitions/osf.c
index be03a0b08b47af8bc0761f9bbcca30846ce8a2f4..764b86a01965acb6078897fd97c4db314c8679c4 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/partitions/osf.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/osf.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #include "check.h"
 #include "osf.h"
 
-#define MAX_OSF_PARTITIONS 8
+#define MAX_OSF_PARTITIONS 18
 
 int osf_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)
 {