Bug 857305

Summary: Grub2 truncates device paths longer than 64 bytes
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component: grub2Assignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 18CC: dcantrell, dennis, gustavold, jkachuck, mads, pjones, tedyjs, wgomerin
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Hardware: ppc64   
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Fixed In Version: grub-2.00-8.fc18 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 878100 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-10-30 20:28:17 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 846990, 878100    
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Increase the buffer size to support device path bigger than 64 characters.
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Resubmitting patch using pjones's guideline none

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2012-09-14 04:51:01 UTC 
== Comment: #0 - Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gusld.com> - 2012-09-13 15:12:56 ==
Grub2 has a limit of 64 bytes for the device path. Some types of devices have path longer than 64 bytes. 

For example, we have a device with the following path:
/io-hub@3efe00000000/pciex@3efe00080000/pci@0/pci@0/pci@6/pci1014,0339@0/sas/disk@0

In the grub2's rescue console, an 'ls' shows the complete device path, but 'ls -l' throws an error showing a truncated device path.

grub rescue> ls
(ieee1275//io-hub@3efe00000000/pciex@3efe00080000/pci@0/pci@0/pci@6/pci1014\,0339@0/sas/disk) (ieee1275//io-hub@3efe00000000/pciex@3efe00080000/pci@0/pci@0/pci@6/pci1014\,0339@0/sas/disk,msdos3) (ieee1275//io-hub@3efe00000000/pciex@3efe00080000/pci@0/pci@0/pci@6/pci1014\,0339@0/sas/disk,msdos2) (ieee1275//io-hub@3efe00000000/pciex@3efe00080000/pci@0/pci@0/pci@6/pci1014\,0339@0/sas/disk,msdos1) (ieee1275//io-hub@3efe00000000/pciex@3efe00080000/pci@0/pci@0/pci@6/pci1014\,0339@0/sata/disk) (ieee1275//packages/gscsi/disk) 
grub rescue> ls -l                          
error: disk `ieee1275//io-hub@3efe00000000/pciex@3efe00080000/pci@0/pci@0/pci@6/
pci101,msdos2' not found.
grub rescue>

== Comment: #1 - Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo.com> - 2012-09-13 15:18:50 ==
Comment 1 IBM Bug Proxy 2012-09-14 04:51:18 UTC 
Created attachment 612721 [details]
Increase the buffer size to support device path bigger than 64 characters.
Comment 2 IBM Bug Proxy 2012-09-19 17:53:31 UTC 
Created attachment 614508 [details]
Resubmitting patch using pjones's guideline


------- Comment (attachment only) From pfsmorigo.com 2012-09-19 17:35 EDT-------
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-11-27 20:34:28 UTC 
grub2-2.0-0.39.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/grub2-2.0-0.39.fc17
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-12-06 07:00:29 UTC 
grub2-2.0-0.39.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Teddy Js 2012-12-07 05:22:27 UTC 
Are grub2-2.0-0.39.fc17 build for ppc64 ? 
I only found grub2-2.0-0.38.beta6.fc17.ppc64.rpm on repository at date 31 augst 2012 today.
Comment 6 Mads Kiilerich 2012-12-07 10:09:26 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Are grub2-2.0-0.39.fc17 build for ppc64 ? 

The f18 grub2 packages can in general be used on f17.