From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <matt.porter@linaro.org>,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: GPT detection regression in efi.c from commit 27a7c64
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:29:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1379096972.2197.31.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130913181720.GA1614@x2.net.home>
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 20:17 +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 02:09:55PM -0400, Matt Porter wrote:
> > >Come to think of it, we do have a long existing workaround: the
> > >force_gpt option. Setting it will bypass any MBR checking
> > >(is_pmbr_valid(), specifically).
> >
> > Yes, that's what I used at first after seeing what the problem was. But then
> > I opted to fix my PMBR.
> >
> > I felt like it was a regression since it required a new option passed on the
> > cmdline.
>
> Yep, it is *regression* and I guess Davidlohr is going to fix it asap :-)
I was doing a git revert, but what would you guys think of keeping the
check but making it more flexible? Instead of enforcing the minimum,
just make sure that the size_in_lba is either the whole disk or 2 TiB,
that should take care of Matt's issue.
diff --git a/block/partitions/efi.c b/block/partitions/efi.c
index 1a5ec9a..df2fca1 100644
--- a/block/partitions/efi.c
+++ b/block/partitions/efi.c
@@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ check_hybrid:
* Hybrid MBRs do not necessarily comply with this.
*/
if (ret == GPT_MBR_PROTECTIVE) {
- if (le32_to_cpu(mbr->partition_record[part].size_in_lba) !=
- min((uint32_t) total_sectors - 1, 0xFFFFFFFF))
+ if (le32_to_cpu(mbr->partition_record[part].size_in_lba) != (uint32_t) total_sectors - 1 ||
+ le32_to_cpu(mbr->partition_record[part].size_in_lba) != 0xFFFFFFFF)
ret = 0;
}
done:
Karel, I guess any changes that we do here should apply to fdisk :)
Thanks,
Davidlohr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-13 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-13 14:50 Matt Porter
2013-09-13 16:28 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-09-13 17:01 ` Matt Porter
2013-09-13 17:37 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-09-13 18:17 ` Matt Porter
2013-09-13 18:07 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-09-13 18:09 ` Matt Porter
2013-09-13 18:17 ` Karel Zak
2013-09-13 18:29 ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2013-09-13 18:33 ` Matt Porter
2013-09-13 19:26 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-09-13 21:36 ` Matt Porter
2013-09-13 22:02 ` Davidlohr Bueso
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