Composing these operations caused GParted to abort on an assert failure:
(1) Check an existing partition,
(2) Create a new partition,
(3) Delete new partition.
# ./gpartedbin
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libparted : 2.4
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ERROR:OperationCheck.cc:40:virtual GParted::Partition& GParted::OperationCheck::get_partition_new(): assertion failed: (false)
Aborted (core dumped)
# gdb ./gpartedbin core.8876 --batch --quiet --ex backtrace -ex quit
[New Thread 8876]
[New Thread 8879]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Core was generated by `./gpartedbin'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
#0 0x000000361f2325e5 in raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
64 return INLINE_SYSCALL (tgkill, 3, pid, selftid, sig);
#0 0x000000361f2325e5 in raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
#1 0x000000361f233dc5 in abort () at abort.c:92
#2 0x0000003620a67324 in g_assertion_message (domain=<value optimized out>, file=<value optimized out>, line=<value optimized out>, func=0x50f400 "virtual GParted::Partition& GParted::OperationCheck::get_partition_new()", message=0x1d37a00 "assertion failed: (false)") at gtestutils.c:1358
#3 0x0000003620a678f0 in g_assertion_message_expr (domain=0x0, file=0x50f1a8 "OperationCheck.cc", line=40, func=0x50f400 "virtual GParted::Partition& GParted::OperationCheck::get_partition_new()", expr=<value optimized out>) at gtestutils.c:1369
#4 0x0000000000498e21 in GParted::OperationCheck::get_partition_new (this=0x1d1bb30) at OperationCheck.cc:40
#5 0x00000000004c66ec in GParted::Win_GParted::activate_delete (this=0x7fff031c3e30) at Win_GParted.cc:2068
...
When Win_GParted::activate_delete() was stepping through the operation
list removing operations (2 & 3 in the above recreation steps) which
related to the new partition never to be created it called
get_partition_new() on all operations in the list. This included
calling get_partition_new() on the check operation (1 in the above
recreation steps). As partition_new was not set or used by the check
operation get_partition_new() asserted false and crashed GParted.
Fix by populating the partition_new member in OperationCheck objects,
thus allowing get_partition_new() to be called on the object. As a
check operation doesn't change any partition boundaries or file system
attributes, just duplicate the new partition from the original
partition.
Bug 767233 - GParted core dump on assert failure in
OperationDelete::get_partition_new()
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