---

yaml
---
r: 114899
b: refs/heads/master
c: ac0d86f
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  114897: 3149848
  114895: 379b10c
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 6722e45c2de622eaf5f26d370b9de19632ac7478
+refs/heads/master: ac0d86f5809598ddcd6bfa0ea8245ccc910e9eac

trunk/fs/partitions/check.c

@@ -538,10 +538,23 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
 		sector_t from = state->parts[p].from;
 		if (!size)
 			continue;
+		if (from >= get_capacity(disk)) {
+			printk(KERN_WARNING
+			       "%s: p%d ignored, start %llu is behind the end of the disk\n",
+			       disk->disk_name, p, (unsigned long long) from);
+			continue;
+		}
 		if (from + size > get_capacity(disk)) {
+			/*
+			 * we can not ignore partitions of broken tables
+			 * created by for example camera firmware, but we
+			 * limit them to the end of the disk to avoid
+			 * creating invalid block devices
+			 */
 			printk(KERN_WARNING
-				"%s: p%d exceeds device capacity\n",
-				disk->disk_name, p);
+			       "%s: p%d size %llu limited to end of disk\n",
+			       disk->disk_name, p, (unsigned long long) size);
+			size = get_capacity(disk) - from;
 		}
 		res = add_partition(disk, p, from, size, state->parts[p].flags);
 		if (res) {