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[Impact]

Parted is crashing (core dumping) during resize operation, while
changing the end position of a partition.

[Test Case]

root@ubuntu-focal:~# parted /dev/sda resizepart 1 100%
Warning: Partition /dev/sda1 is being used. Are you sure you want to continue?
Yes/No? yes
End?  [42.9GB]?
free(): invalid pointer
Aborted (core dumped)

[Where problems could occur]

As per resize documentation:
"Note that this does not modify any filesystem present in the partition."
"When growing a partition you will want to grow the filesystem afterwards"

FS-wise the resize operation won't try to take action on the FS itself.
It would need to be done by the admin as a separate step.

If any problem arise, it will be limited to the resize functionality of
parted. In this case, the impact would be ~ similar to the actual parted
state (before this SRU), and one won't be able to resize as requested.

[Other Info]

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=ca845aeeddb17343c9289816833ca352f7c0d87b

# Upstream repo:

git describe --tags ca845ae
v3.3-5-gca845ae

# Ubuntu
$ rmadison parted

 parted | 3.2-15ubuntu0.1       | xenial-updates
 parted | 3.2-20ubuntu0.2       | bionic-updates
 parted | 3.3-4                 | focal
 parted | 3.3-4                 | groovy
 parted | 3.3-4                 | hirsute

[Original Description]
parted crashes with invalid pointer on resizepart on focal

root@ubuntu-focal:~# parted /dev/sda resizepart 1 100%
Warning: Partition /dev/sda1 is being used. Are you sure you want to continue?
Yes/No? yes
End?  [42.9GB]?
free(): invalid pointer
Aborted (core dumped)

Discussion: https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-
parted@xxxxxxx/msg04962.html

Fix:
https://github.com/bcl/parted/commit/883813c365482d06d05a1998e066792c48156f23

** Affects: parted (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Eric Desrochers (slashd)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: parted (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Eric Desrochers (slashd)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: parted (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Eric Desrochers (slashd)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: parted (Ubuntu Focal)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Eric Desrochers (slashd)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: parted (Ubuntu Groovy)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Eric Desrochers (slashd)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: parted (Ubuntu Hirsute)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Eric Desrochers (slashd)
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: seg sts
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parted crashes with invalid pointer on resizepart on focal
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1905579
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