Re: [PATCH v6 2/5] partitions/efi: Support non-standard GPT location

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On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 01:19:17AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 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 | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/block/partitions/efi.c b/block/partitions/efi.c
> index aaa3dc487cb5..7ca5c4c374d4 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 +621,16 @@ 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) {
> +		sector_t agpt_sector;
> +		int err;
> +
> +		err = fops->alternative_gpt_sector(disk, &agpt_sector);
> +		if (!err)
> +			good_agpt = is_gpt_valid(state, agpt_sector,
> +						 &agpt, &aptes);
> +	}
> +

When alternative_gpt_sector is provided I would expect it to override
the default, not be a fallback for it. But if someone tries to put
a broken (decoy, garbage) GPT at a standard place, current ordering
will prevent overriding it.

Best Regards
Michał Mirosław



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