commit 466d9c4904deb25e2e8dcd29d3a998f4e3fa7c17
author Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com> Fri Aug 20 03:45:34 2021 +0300
committer Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Tue Aug 24 10:09:06 2021 -0600
tree 5037a2454bcee99d0562783046850dc53c5340a8
parent 0bdfbca8a623e262e0f343b143151000a300cbaf

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>

block/partitions/efi.c

diff --git a/block/partitions/efi.c b/block/partitions/efi.c
index aaa3dc4..7ca5c4c 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);
+	}
+
         /* The obviously unsuccessful case */
         if (!good_pgpt && !good_agpt)
                 goto fail;