Re: [PATCH] osdep/linux: Fix md array device enumeration

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 10:27 AM Julian Andres Klode
<julian.klode@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:09:26PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 06:15:27PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 06:10:21PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > [...]
> > This patch is in upstream as commit c39f27cd6 (osdep/linux: Fix md array
> > device enumeration).

Oh good. I really thought it had landed already, so thanks for
checking. I got worried this morning when I saw the email to
grub-devel. :P "Wasn't that fixed already?" :) But thank you for
making sure it hadn't gotten lost! Is there a way to close the tracker
item for it?

> [...]
> > I realized right now that MD_MAX_DISKS defined in commit c39f27cd6
> > (osdep/linux: Fix md array device enumeration) is not in sync with
> > commit 2a5e3c1f2 (disk/diskfilter: Don't make a RAID array with more
> > than 1024 disks). I think we should sync both numbers down to 1024...
>
> +1

Yeah, seems reasonable, though as I hinted in the original patch, this
number appeared to have been arbitrarily chosen by mdadm at the time.

-Kees

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Kees Cook