From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:38:51 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: partx: fix infinite loop
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partx: fix infinite loop

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:39:35PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I noticed that running partx -d /dev/sda hangs so I looked into it
> and it seems that it keeps trying to delete partitions forever.

Reported-By: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/partx/partx.c b/partx/partx.c
index 3d60bf69..14d2609f 100644
--- a/partx/partx.c
+++ b/partx/partx.c
@@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ main(int argc, char **argv){
 		while (upper == 0 || lower <= upper) {
 			int err;
 
+			if (lower > MAXSLICES)
+				break;
 			pt.pno = lower;
 			pt.start = 0;
 			pt.length = 0;