Support looking up GPT at a non-standard location specified by a block device driver. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx> --- block/partitions/efi.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/block/partitions/efi.c b/block/partitions/efi.c index aaa3dc487cb5..b9509f445b3c 100644 --- a/block/partitions/efi.c +++ b/block/partitions/efi.c @@ -585,6 +585,8 @@ static int find_valid_gpt(struct parsed_partitions *state, gpt_header **gpt, gpt_header *pgpt = NULL, *agpt = NULL; gpt_entry *pptes = NULL, *aptes = NULL; legacy_mbr *legacymbr; + struct gendisk *disk = state->disk; + const struct block_device_operations *fops = disk->fops; sector_t total_sectors = get_capacity(state->disk); u64 lastlba; @@ -619,6 +621,17 @@ static int find_valid_gpt(struct parsed_partitions *state, gpt_header **gpt, if (!good_agpt && force_gpt) good_agpt = is_gpt_valid(state, lastlba, &agpt, &aptes); + if (!good_agpt && force_gpt && fops->alternative_gpt_sector) { + struct block_device *bdev = disk->part0; + sector_t agpt_sector; + int err; + + err = fops->alternative_gpt_sector(bdev, &agpt_sector); + if (!err) + good_agpt = is_gpt_valid(state, agpt_sector, + &agpt, &aptes); + } + /* The obviously unsuccessful case */ if (!good_pgpt && !good_agpt) goto fail; -- 2.32.0