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grub2 package

grub-probe: double free or corruption in some rare cases

Bug #1330963 reported by Vladimir Smirnov
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This bug affects 10 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
grub
Unknown
Unknown
grub2 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
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Bug Description

There is small bug in grub2 in trusty, that causing grub-probe to fail in some rare cases.
I've got system with follwing scheme:
GPT (4 HDD):
1) 128MB Free space, bios_boot flag
2) MDADM RAID10, /boot, ext3
3) MDADM RAID10, LVM vg0 (for /, /home, etc)
4) MDADM RAID10, LVM vg1 (data partitions).

In this case grub fails with:
glibc detected *** ./grub-probe: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0000000000838760 ***

Cause of this behavior is grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c:886.

I've also filed a bug upstream: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41582
but it's still not closed and bug is present in Ubuntu 14.04.

I'm attaching my vision of fixing this bug here. Thoguh, there maybe a better way to fix this.

Related branches

lp:debian/grub2
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Vladimir Smirnov (civilian) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "0001-Fix-double-free-when-using-LVM.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by ~brian-murray, for any issues please contact him.]

tags: added: patch
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
tags: added: trusty
tags: added: rls-u-incoming
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Toni Förster (stonerl) wrote :

Just one question, is this going to be addressed in trusty? Upstream has fixed this, already: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41582#comment5

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Toni Förster (stonerl) wrote :

This was the commit afaik: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=fc535b32b9fe0cd84213724ffba43b98e2da6ab4

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 2.02~beta2-25

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grub2 (2.02~beta2-25) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Build-depend on dosfstools and mtools on arm64 as well as amd64.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Jun 2015 12:29:19 +0100

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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