History log of /linux-master/block/partitions/efi.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# f9831b88 19-Oct-2021 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

partitions/efi: use bdev_nr_bytes instead of open coding it

Use the proper helper to read the block device size.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019062024.2171074-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 466d9c49 19-Aug-2021 Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>

partitions/efi: Support non-standard GPT location

Support looking up GPT at a non-standard location specified by a block
device driver.

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210820004536.15791-3-digetx@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# a08aa9bc 10-Aug-2021 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

block: store a gendisk in struct parsed_partitions

Partition scanning only happens on the whole device, so pass a
struct gendisk instead of the whole device block_device to the scanners.
This allows to simplify printing the device name in various places as the
disk name is available in disk->name.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210810154512.1809898-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 4bc20823 13-May-2021 Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>

block/partitions/efi.c: Fix the efi_partition() kernel-doc header

Fix the following kernel-doc warning:

block/partitions/efi.c:685: warning: wrong kernel-doc identifier on line:
* efi_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)

Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210513171708.8391-1-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# d5528d5e 08-Mar-2020 Nikolai Merinov <n.merinov@inango-systems.com>

partitions/efi: Fix partition name parsing in GUID partition entry

GUID partition entry defined to have a partition name as 36 UTF-16LE
code units. This means that on big-endian platforms ASCII symbols
would be read with 0xXX00 efi_char16_t character code. In order to
correctly extract ASCII characters from a partition name field we
should be converted from 16LE to CPU architecture.

The problem exists on all big endian platforms.

[ mingo: Minor edits. ]

Fixes: eec7ecfede74 ("genhd, efi: add efi partition metadata to hd_structs")
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Merinov <n.merinov@inango-systems.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308080859.21568-29-ardb@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/797777312.1324734.1582544319435.JavaMail.zimbra@inango-systems.com/


# a497ee34 30-Apr-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

block: switch all files cleared marked as GPLv2 or later to SPDX tags

All these files have some form of the usual GPLv2 or later boilerplate.
Switch them to use SPDX tags instead.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# c5082b70 15-Jan-2017 Alden Tondettar <alden.tondettar@gmail.com>

partitions/efi: Fix integer overflow in GPT size calculation

If a GUID Partition Table claims to have more than 2**25 entries, the
calculation of the partition table size in alloc_read_gpt_entries() will
overflow a 32-bit integer and not enough space will be allocated for the
table.

Nothing seems to get written out of bounds, but later efi_partition() will
read up to 32768 bytes from a 128 byte buffer, possibly OOPSing or exposing
information to /proc/partitions and uevents.

The problem exists on both 64-bit and 32-bit platforms.

Fix the overflow and also print a meaningful debug message if the table
size is too large.

Signed-off-by: Alden Tondettar <alden.tondettar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# c19ca6cb 08-Feb-2016 Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>

treewide: Fix typos in printk

This patch fix spelling typos found in printk
within various part of the kernel sources.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>


# 26e02272 18-Dec-2014 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

efi: Rename efi_guid_unparse to efi_guid_to_str

Call it what it does - "unparse" is plain-misleading.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>


# 16e15565 12-Jun-2014 Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>

block/partitions/efi.c: kerneldoc fixing

Adding function documentation and fixing kerneldoc warnings
('field: description' uniformization).

Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 49204c11 21-Nov-2013 Antti P Miettinen <amiettinen@nvidia.com>

block/partitions/efi.c: fix bound check

Use ARRAY_SIZE instead of sizeof to get proper max for label length.

Since this is just a read out of bounds it's not that bad, but the
problem becomes user-visible eg if one tries to use DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and
DEBUG_RODATA, at least with some enhancements from Hiroshi. Of course
the destination array can contain garbage when we read beyond the end of
source array so that would be another user-visible problem.

Signed-off-by: Antti P Miettinen <amiettinen@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@nvidia.com>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 87fc0ad2 16-Oct-2013 Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>

block/partitions/efi.c: treat size mismatch as a warning, not an error

In commit 27a7c642174e ("partitions/efi: account for pmbr size in lba")
we started treating bad sizes in lba field of the partition that has the
0xEE (GPT protective) as errors.

However, we may run into these "bad sizes" in the real world if someone
uses dd to copy an image from a smaller disk to a bigger disk. Since
this case used to work (even without using force_gpt), keep it working
and treat the size mismatch as a warning instead of an error.

Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reported-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 6b02fa59 13-Sep-2013 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>

partitions/efi: loosen check fot pmbr size in lba

Matt found that commit 27a7c642174e ("partitions/efi: account for pmbr
size in lba") caused his GPT formatted eMMC device not to boot. The
reason is that this commit enforced Linux to always check the lesser of
the whole disk or 2Tib for the pMBR size in LBA. While most disk
partitioning tools out there create a pMBR with these characteristics,
Microsoft does not, as it always sets the entry to the maximum 32-bit
limitation - even though a drive may be smaller than that[1].

Loosen this check and only verify that the size is either the whole disk
or 0xFFFFFFFF. No tool in its right mind would set it to any value
other than these.

[1] http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/GPT.htm#GPTPT

Reported-and-tested-by: Matt Porter <matt.porter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b4bc4a18 11-Sep-2013 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

block/partitions/efi.c: consistently use pr_foo()

Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 70f637e9 11-Sep-2013 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>

partitions/efi: some style cleanups

Trivial coding style cleanups - still plenty left.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# aa054bc9 11-Sep-2013 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>

partitions/efi: compare first and last usable LBAs

When verifying GPT header integrity, make sure that first usable LBA is
smaller than last usable LBA.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 27a7c642 11-Sep-2013 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>

partitions/efi: account for pmbr size in lba

The partition that has the 0xEE (GPT protective), must have the size in
lba field set to the lesser of the size of the disk minus one or
0xFFFFFFFF for larger disks.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b05ebbbb 11-Sep-2013 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>

partitions/efi: detect hybrid MBRs

One of the biggest problems with GPT is compatibility with older, non-GPT
systems. The problem is addressed by creating hybrid mbrs, an extension,
or variant, of the traditional protective mbr. This contains, apart from
the 0xEE partition, up three additional primary partitions that point to
the same space marked by up to three GPT partitions. The result is that
legacy OSs can see the three required MBR partitions and at the same time
ignore the GPT-aware partitions that protect the GPT structures.

While hybrid MBRs are hacks, workarounds and simply not part of the GPT
standard, they do exist and we have no way around them. For instance, by
default, OSX creates a hybrid scheme when using multi-OS booting.

In order for Linux to properly discover protective MBRs, it must be made
aware of devices that have hybrid MBRs. No functionality is changed by
this patch, just a debug message informing the user of the MBR scheme that
is being used.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3e69ac34 11-Sep-2013 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>

partitions/efi: do not require gpt partition to begin at sector 1

When detecting a valid protective MBR, the Linux kernel isn't picky about
the partition (1-4) the 0xEE is at, but, unlike other operating systems,
it does require it to begin at the second sector (sector 1). This check,
apart from it not being enforced by UEFI, and causing Linux to potentially
fail to detect any *valid* partitions on the disk, can present problems
when dealing with hybrid MBRs[1].

For compatibility reasons, if the first partition is hybridized, the 0xEE
partition must be small enough to ensure that it only protects the GPT
data structures - as opposed to the the whole disk in a protective MBR.
This problem is very well described by Rod Smith[1]: where MBR-only
partitioning programs (such as older versions of fdisk) can see some of
the disk space as unallocated, thus loosing the purpose of the 0xEE
partition's protection of GPT data structures.

By dropping this check, this patch enables Linux to be more flexible when
probing for GPT disklabels.

[1] http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html#reactions

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 33afd7a7 11-Sep-2013 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>

partitions/efi: check pmbr record's starting lba

Per the UEFI Specs 2.4, June 2013, the starting lba of the partition that
has the EFI GPT (0xEE) must be set to 0x00000001 - this is obviously the
LBA of the GPT Partition Header.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# c2ebdc24 11-Sep-2013 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>

partitions/efi: use lba-aware partition records

The kernel's GPT implementation currently uses the generic 'struct
partition' type for dealing with legacy MBR partition records. While this
is is useful for disklabels that we designed for CHS addressing, such as
msdos, it doesn't adapt well to newer standards that use LBA instead, such
as GUID partition tables. Furthermore, these generic partition structures
do not have all the required fields to properly follow the UEFI specs.

While a CHS address can be translated to LBA, it's much simpler and
cleaner to just replace the partition type. This patch adds a new
'gpt_record' type that is fully compliant with EFI and will allow, in the
next patches, to add more checks to properly verify a protective MBR,
which is paramount to probing a device that makes use of GPT.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ea56505b 29-Apr-2013 Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>

partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's

In alloc_read_gpt_entries and alloc_read_gpt_header, the kzalloc'ated
zones are either totally overwritten by the following read_lba call,
or freed. As kmalloc is cheaper than kzalloc, use kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 8b8a6e18 27-Feb-2013 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>

block/partitions/efi.c: ensure that the GPT header is at least the size of the structure.

UEFI 2.3.1D will include a change to the spec language mandating that a
GPT header must be greater than *or equal to* the size of the defined
structure. While verifying that this would work on Linux, I discovered
that we're not actually checking the minimum bound at all.

The result of this is that when we verify the checksum, it's possible that
on a malformed header (with header_size of 0), we won't actually verify
any data.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 1ad7e899 08-Nov-2012 Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>

block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string

This will allow other types of UUID to be stored here, aside from true
UUIDs. This also simplifies code that uses this field, since it's usually
constructed from a, used as a, or compared to other, strings.

Note: A simplistic approach here would be to set uuid_str[36]=0 whenever a
/PARTNROFF option was found to be present. However, this modifies the
input string, and causes subsequent calls to devt_from_partuuid() not to
see the /PARTNROFF option, which causes different results. In order to
avoid misleading future maintainers, this parameter is marked const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 9be96f3f 15-Sep-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

move fs/partitions to block/

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>