Re: [Libguestfs] Hivex - Trailing garbage at the end of hive file
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 02:12:08PM +0000, Subramanian, Hari wrote:
To respond to you question about "whether it fails",
hivexsh is unable to
open the hive file and it prints this message and exits. I've attached the
verbose logs as requested
OK, I understand it now. It is in fact failing, setting
errno = ENOSYS and returning an error.
This extract from the logs shows that the hivexsh complains content
after
file offset 0x77c000 is garbage
hivex: badsys: trailing garbage at end of file (at 0x77c000, after 1849
pages)
So, I went ahead and truncated the contents of the file after that file
offset and hivex was able to successfully open the new hive file
I guess if the hive comes from a real guest we can change this to warn
but not fail.
Should be a pretty simple patch.
Rich.
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