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* grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c (linux_find_partition): Give up

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after ten consecutive open failures.  Scanning all the way up to
10000 is excessive and can cause serious performance problems in
some configurations.
Fixes Ubuntu bug #787461.
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Colin Watson 2011-05-27 13:52:21 +01:00
parent 245f4aba48
commit c64db050f7
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2011-05-27 Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
* grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c (linux_find_partition): Give up
after ten consecutive open failures. Scanning all the way up to
10000 is excessive and can cause serious performance problems in
some configurations.
Fixes Ubuntu bug #787461.
2011-05-21 Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
* grub-core/disk/arc/arcdisk.c (reopen): Close old handle before

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@ -564,6 +564,7 @@ linux_find_partition (char *dev, grub_disk_addr_t sector)
int i;
char real_dev[PATH_MAX];
struct linux_partition_cache *cache;
int missing = 0;
strcpy(real_dev, dev);
@ -602,7 +603,13 @@ linux_find_partition (char *dev, grub_disk_addr_t sector)
fd = open (real_dev, O_RDONLY);
if (fd == -1)
continue;
{
if (missing++ < 10)
continue;
else
return 0;
}
missing = 0;
close (fd);
start = find_partition_start (real_dev);