linux-hardened/block
Davidlohr Bueso c2ebdc2439 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>
2013-09-11 15:59:15 -07:00
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partitions partitions/efi: use lba-aware partition records 2013-09-11 15:59:15 -07:00
blk-cgroup.c cgroup: make css_for_each_descendant() and friends include the origin css in the iteration 2013-08-08 20:11:27 -04:00
blk-cgroup.h cgroup: make css_for_each_descendant() and friends include the origin css in the iteration 2013-08-08 20:11:27 -04:00
blk-core.c [SCSI] Return ENODATA on medium error 2013-08-23 12:54:53 -04:00
blk-exec.c Merge branch 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-02-28 12:52:24 -08:00
blk-flush.c Block: blk-flush: Fixed indent code style 2013-03-22 12:22:51 -06:00
blk-integrity.c scatterlist: introduce sg_unmark_end 2013-03-20 15:43:04 +10:30
blk-ioc.c block: queue work on power efficient wq 2013-05-14 10:50:07 -07:00
blk-iopoll.c block: delete __cpuinit usage from all block files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
blk-lib.c block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request 2013-02-15 16:45:07 +01:00
blk-map.c block: re-use existing 'reading' variable instead of checking direction again 2011-12-21 15:27:24 +01:00
blk-merge.c scatterlist: introduce sg_unmark_end 2013-03-20 15:43:04 +10:30
blk-settings.c block: discard granularity might not be power of 2 2012-12-14 20:46:04 +01:00
blk-softirq.c block: delete __cpuinit usage from all block files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
blk-sysfs.c block/blk-sysfs.c: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul() 2013-09-11 15:56:56 -07:00
blk-tag.c block: Reserve only one queue tag for sync IO if only 3 tags are available 2013-06-28 21:32:27 +02:00
blk-throttle.c cgroup: make css_for_each_descendant() and friends include the origin css in the iteration 2013-08-08 20:11:27 -04:00
blk-timeout.c block: check for timeout function in blk_rq_timed_out() 2013-07-01 17:31:23 +02:00
blk.h block,elevator: use new hashtable implementation 2013-01-11 14:43:13 +01:00
bsg-lib.c bsg: Remove unused function bsg_goose_queue() 2012-12-06 14:33:02 +01:00
bsg.c hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
cfq-iosched.c cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup in file methods 2013-08-08 20:11:24 -04:00
cmdline-parser.c block: support embedded device command line partition 2013-09-11 15:56:57 -07:00
compat_ioctl.c kernel-wide: fix missing validations on __get/__put/__copy_to/__copy_from_user() 2013-09-11 15:58:18 -07:00
deadline-iosched.c elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching 2013-07-03 13:25:24 +02:00
elevator.c elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching 2013-07-03 13:25:24 +02:00
genhd.c block: do not pass disk names as format strings 2013-07-03 16:07:25 -07:00
ioctl.c Merge branch 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2012-10-11 09:04:23 +09:00
Kconfig block: support embedded device command line partition 2013-09-11 15:56:57 -07:00
Kconfig.iosched blkcg: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool 2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
Makefile block: support embedded device command line partition 2013-09-11 15:56:57 -07:00
noop-iosched.c elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching 2013-07-03 13:25:24 +02:00
partition-generic.c Revert "loop: cleanup partitions when detaching loop device" 2013-04-08 10:12:11 +02:00
scsi_ioctl.c aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h 2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00