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[Brian Murray <1905579@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Marcus, or anyone else affected,

Accepted parted into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/3.3-4ubuntu0.20.10.1 in a
few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu Groovy)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-groovy

** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed-focal

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Title:
  parted crashes with invalid pointer on resizepart on focal

Status in parted package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in parted source package in Xenial:
  Won't Fix
Status in parted source package in Bionic:
  Won't Fix
Status in parted source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in parted source package in Groovy:
  Fix Committed
Status in parted source package in Hirsute:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [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

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