Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v2] efi: take size of partition entry from GPT header | Date | Fri, 14 Sep 2018 09:01:48 +0000 |
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From: Eugene Korenevsky > Sent: 13 September 2018 20:48 > > > I suspect you also need a sanity check that the value isn't too small > > or stupidly large. > > What would be the criterion for too large entries?
Anything larger than the maximum size of the full GPT table would be a start. Even something like 64k would stop later calculations going wrong. I presume there is a check elsewhere that the GPT table entries are all inside the disk area that was read?
David
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