Bug 11176

Summary:	fdisk partition size is limited by atoi
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	dcaleca
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:
Attachments:	replace atoi with strtoul

Description dcaleca 2018-07-24 15:11:40 UTC

Except when using the default values, fdisk cannot create partitions bigger than 1TB (when using 512 bytes sectors, on 32 bits architectures).

This is because there is a type mismatch between sector_t (unsigned int) and atoi (int).

Comment 1 dcaleca 2018-07-24 15:12:45 UTC

Created attachment 7671 [details]
replace atoi with strtoul

Comment 2 Denys Vlasenko 2018-07-25 12:43:52 UTC

Fixed in git