Subject: bug#29051: Error in `parted': realloc(): invalid next size

From: Seth Finkelstein <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 23:35:48 -0400

On the Samsung Galaxy TabPro S tablet, "parted /dev/sda print" crashes
with an error such as:

*** Error in `parted': realloc(): invalid next size: 0x000055cf7d3f3200 ***

This is using clonezilla-live-20171024-artful-amd64.iso
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php

root@artful:~# parted
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: ATA LITEON CV1-8B128 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 128GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

*** Error in `parted': realloc(): invalid next size: 0x00005590d5252c00 ***
Aborted

	I hope the following information helps:

root@artful:~# uname -a
Linux artful 4.13.0-16-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 11 18:35:14 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@artful:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 74742138-9879-4263-8AF3-146959FA3F9B

Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1       2048    206847    204800   100M EFI System
/dev/sda2     206848    468991    262144   128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3     468992 227284991 226816000 108.2G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4  227284992 228308991   1024000   500M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda5  228308992 247971839  19662848   9.4G Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda6  247971840 250068991   2097152     1G Windows recovery environment

root@artful:~# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.13.0-16-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     LITEON CV1-8B128
Serial Number:    002603102KU6
Firmware Version: G872002
User Capacity:    128,035,676,160 bytes [128 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Sat Oct 28 22:48:09 2017 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Thanks for any help,
-- 
Seth Finkelstein
sethf put-at-sign-here sethf.com