Bug 11176 - fdisk partition size is limited by atoi
Summary: fdisk partition size is limited by atoi
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Busybox
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Linux
: P5 normal
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Reported: 2018-07-24 15:11 UTC by dcaleca
Modified: 2018-07-25 12:43 UTC (History)
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replace atoi with strtoul (819 bytes, patch)
2018-07-24 15:12 UTC, dcaleca 		Details
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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