Kernel 3.4 behaves weirdly with flash drives

[Ankur Sinha]

Hi folks,

In kernels 3.4 and 3.4.2, the kernel gets the size of my pen drives
wrong: it thinks they're EB[1] in size, when they're actually only 4GB
and 8GB. This issue is not present in the 3.3 kernel.

I was wondering if any one else is facing the same issue? The bug is
filed here[2]. 

As a result, I cannot use stuff like fdisk on my system too. It
complains:

> [root at ankur ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb
> Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.21.2).
> 
> Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
> Be careful before using the write command.
> 
> 
> WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
> 
> 
> WARNING: The size of this disk is 1122759.7 TB (18302628885633696256 bytes).
> DOS partition table format can not be used on drives for volumes
> larger than (2199023255040 bytes) for 512-byte sectors. Use parted(1) and GUID
> partition table format (GPT).
> 
> fdisk: unable to seek on /dev/sdb: Invalid argument
> [root at ankur ~]#


It even prevents me from creating USB fedora installers:


> [root at ankur ~]# dd if=/home/ankur/Downloads/torrents/rtorrent_completed/Fedora-17-ISOs/Fedora-17-x86_64-DVD/Fedora-17-x86_64-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=8M
> dd: writing `/dev/sdb': No space left on device
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.105326 s, 0.0 kB/s
> [root at ankur ~]#

dd worked flawlessly with the 3.3 kernel. 

I now have only one 3.3 kernel left on my system. Another broken 3.4
kernel will mean I get stuck with this bug. I've increased the
installonly_limit in yum.conf to keep 3.3 around for the time being. Any
hints/fixes? :)


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831807

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Thanks, 
Warm regards,
Ankur: "FranciscoD"

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