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bsdinstall(8): partedit can hang/crash on read/lseek/malloc failures

This fixes a few problems:

if lseek(2) fails, bootsize underflows to SIZE_T_MAX, making the resulting allocation dangerous
if malloc(3) fails, we end up with a null pointer deref later
if read(2) fails, the installer will hang trying to read(2) boot loader code

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Tested via entering the partition editor in bsdinstall

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rS FreeBSD src repository - subversion

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will_worrbase.com created this revision.Mar 3 2018, 8:36 AM

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205806

will_worrbase.com retitled this revision from Replace malloc + read in a loop with mmap to bsdinstall(8): partedit can hang/crash on read/lseek/malloc failures.Mar 3 2018, 8:37 AM

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