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cperciva
K 8
svn:date
V 27
2016-12-13T06:54:13.799886Z
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V 766
Check that blkfront devices have a non-zero number of sectors and a
non-zero sector size.  Such a device would be a virtual disk of zero
bytes; clearly not useful, and not something we should try to attach.

As a fortuitous side effect, checking that these values are non-zero
here results in them not *becoming* zero later on the function.  This
odd behaviour began with r309124 (clang 3.9.0) but is challenging to
debug; making any changes to this function whatsoever seems to affect
the llvm optimizer behaviour enough to make the unexpected zeroing of
the sector_size variable cease.

PR:		215209
Security:	The potential for variables to unexpectedly become zero
		has worrying consequences for security in general, but
		not so much in this particular context.

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