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kzak at redhat

Nov 9, 2009, 1:36 PM

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[PATCH 1/2] partitions: use sector size for EFI GPT

Currently, kernel uses strictly 512-byte sectors for EFI GPT parsing.
That's wrong.

UEFI standard (version 2.3, May 2009, 5.3.1 GUID Format overview, page
95) defines that LBA is always based on the logical block size. It
means bdev_logical_block_size() (aka BLKSSZGET) for Linux.

This patch removes static sector size from EFI GPT parser.

The problem is reproducible with the latest GNU Parted:

# modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=50 sector_size=4096

# ./parted /dev/sdb print
Model: Linux scsi_debug (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 52.4MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 24.6kB 3002kB 2978kB primary
2 3002kB 6001kB 2998kB primary
3 6001kB 9003kB 3002kB primary

# blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb
# dmesg | tail -1
sdb: unknown partition table <---- !!!

with this patch:

# blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb
# dmesg | tail -1
sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak [at] redhat>
---
fs/partitions/efi.c | 21 +++++++++++++--------
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/partitions/efi.c b/fs/partitions/efi.c
index 038a602..da3f576 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/efi.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/efi.c
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
/************************************************************
* EFI GUID Partition Table handling
- * Per Intel EFI Specification v1.02
- * http://developer.intel.com/technology/efi/efi.htm
+ *
+ * http://www.uefi.org/specs/
+ * http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/
+ *
* efi.[ch] by Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch [at] dell>
* Copyright 2000,2001,2002,2004 Dell Inc.
*
@@ -141,7 +143,7 @@ last_lba(struct block_device *bdev)
{
if (!bdev || !bdev->bd_inode)
return 0;
- return (bdev->bd_inode->i_size >> 9) - 1ULL;
+ return (bdev->bd_inode->i_size / bdev_logical_block_size(bdev)) - 1ULL;
}

static inline int
@@ -188,6 +190,7 @@ static size_t
read_lba(struct block_device *bdev, u64 lba, u8 * buffer, size_t count)
{
size_t totalreadcount = 0;
+ sector_t n = lba * (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev) / 512);

if (!bdev || !buffer || lba > last_lba(bdev))
return 0;
@@ -195,7 +198,7 @@ read_lba(struct block_device *bdev, u64 lba, u8 * buffer, size_t count)
while (count) {
int copied = 512;
Sector sect;
- unsigned char *data = read_dev_sector(bdev, lba++, &sect);
+ unsigned char *data = read_dev_sector(bdev, n++, &sect);
if (!data)
break;
if (copied > count)
@@ -601,6 +604,7 @@ efi_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state, struct block_device *bdev)
gpt_header *gpt = NULL;
gpt_entry *ptes = NULL;
u32 i;
+ unsigned ssz = bdev_logical_block_size(bdev) / 512;

if (!find_valid_gpt(bdev, &gpt, &ptes) || !gpt || !ptes) {
kfree(gpt);
@@ -611,13 +615,14 @@ efi_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state, struct block_device *bdev)
pr_debug("GUID Partition Table is valid! Yea!\n");

for (i = 0; i < le32_to_cpu(gpt->num_partition_entries) && i < state->limit-1; i++) {
+ u64 start = le64_to_cpu(ptes[i].starting_lba);
+ u64 size = le64_to_cpu(ptes[i].ending_lba) -
+ le64_to_cpu(ptes[i].starting_lba) + 1ULL;
+
if (!is_pte_valid(&ptes[i], last_lba(bdev)))
continue;

- put_partition(state, i+1, le64_to_cpu(ptes[i].starting_lba),
- (le64_to_cpu(ptes[i].ending_lba) -
- le64_to_cpu(ptes[i].starting_lba) +
- 1ULL));
+ put_partition(state, i+1, start * ssz, size * ssz);

/* If this is a RAID volume, tell md */
if (!efi_guidcmp(ptes[i].partition_type_guid,
--
1.6.2.5

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jens.axboe at oracle

Nov 24, 2009, 12:26 AM

Post #2 of 2 (114 views)
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] partitions: use sector size for EFI GPT [In reply to]

On Mon, Nov 09 2009, Karel Zak wrote:
> Currently, kernel uses strictly 512-byte sectors for EFI GPT parsing.
> That's wrong.
>
> UEFI standard (version 2.3, May 2009, 5.3.1 GUID Format overview, page
> 95) defines that LBA is always based on the logical block size. It
> means bdev_logical_block_size() (aka BLKSSZGET) for Linux.
>
> This patch removes static sector size from EFI GPT parser.
>
> The problem is reproducible with the latest GNU Parted:
>
> # modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=50 sector_size=4096
>
> # ./parted /dev/sdb print
> Model: Linux scsi_debug (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sdb: 52.4MB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B
> Partition Table: gpt
>
> Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
> 1 24.6kB 3002kB 2978kB primary
> 2 3002kB 6001kB 2998kB primary
> 3 6001kB 9003kB 3002kB primary
>
> # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb
> # dmesg | tail -1
> sdb: unknown partition table <---- !!!
>
> with this patch:
>
> # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb
> # dmesg | tail -1
> sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
>
> Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak [at] redhat>

I have applied this patch with the division fixup, and 2/2 as well.
Thanks!

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Jens Axboe

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