Formatting usb stick produces invalid partition table / destroys usb stick

[no!chance]

While formatting my 16GB usb stick in natillus with right click menu command "Format device" produces a partition table like this:

Befehl (m für Hilfe): p
Medium /dev/sdk1: 15,1 GiB, 16257261568 Bytes, 31752464 Sektoren
Einheiten: sectors von 1 * 512 = 512 Bytes
Sektorengröße (logisch/physisch): 512 Bytes / 512 Bytes
I/O Größe (minimal/optimal): 512 Bytes / 512 Bytes
Typ der Medienbezeichnung: dos
Medienkennung: 0x2052474d

Gerät Boot Start Ende Sektoren Größe Id Typ
/dev/sdk1p1 6579571 1924427647 1917848077 914,5G 70 DiskSecure Multi-Boot
/dev/sdk1p2 1953251627 3771827541 1818575915 867,2G 43 unbekannt
/dev/sdk1p3 225735265 225735274 10 5K 72 unbekannt
/dev/sdk1p4 2642411520 2642463409 51890 25,3M 0 Leer

My USB Stick is only 16gb, while the partition table shows about 1,6 TB!!

This is the seconds time, I observe this! The first formatted usb stick was unusable since then!!

Operating system is Ubuntu 16.4.4:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

Did this issue start happening after an update/upgrade? Was there a prior kernel version where you were not having this particular problem?

Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v4.16 kernel[0].

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug as "Confirmed".

Thanks in advance.

[0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.17-rc3

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