[U-Boot] [PATCH v1 2/3] disk: efi: correct the overlap check on GPT header and PTE

Łukasz Majewski lukma at denx.de
Mon Oct 9 09:53:48 UTC 2017


On 10/09/2017 09:47 AM, Patrick Delaunay wrote:
> the partition starting at 0x4400 is refused with overlap error:
>    $> gpt write mmc 0 "name=test,start=0x4400,size=0"
>    Writing GPT: Partition overlap
>    error!
> 
> even if the 0x4400 is the first available offset for LBA35 with default
> value:
> - MBR=LBA1
> - GPT header=LBA2
> - PTE= 32 LBAs (128 entry), 3 to 34
> 
> And the command to have one partition for all the disk failed also :
>    $> gpt write mmc 0 "name=test,size=0"
> 
> After the patch :
> 
>    $> gpt write mmc 0 "name=test,size=0"
>    Writing GPT: success!
>    $> part list mmc 0
> 
>    Partition Map for MMC device 0  --   Partition Type: EFI
> 
>    Part	Start LBA	End LBA		Name
> 	Attributes
> 	Type GUID
> 	Partition GUID
>    1	0x00000022	0x01ce9fde	"test"
> 	attrs:	0x0000000000000000
> 	type:	ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7
> 	type:	data
> 	guid:	b4b84b8a-04e3-4000-0036-aff5c9c495b1
> 
> And 0x22 = 34 LBA => offset = 0x4400 is accepted as expected
> 

Reviewed-by: Łukasz Majewski <lukma at denx.de>

> Signed-off-by: Patrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay at st.com>
> ---
> 
>   disk/part_efi.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/disk/part_efi.c b/disk/part_efi.c
> index 0abf487..2992d9e 100644
> --- a/disk/part_efi.c
> +++ b/disk/part_efi.c
> @@ -469,8 +469,8 @@ int gpt_fill_pte(struct blk_desc *dev_desc,
>   		 * If our partition overlaps with either the GPT
>   		 * header, or the partition entry, reject it.
>   		 */
> -		if (((start <= hdr_end && hdr_start <= (start + size)) ||
> -		     (start <= pte_end && pte_start <= (start + size)))) {
> +		if (((start < hdr_end && hdr_start < (start + size)) ||
> +		     (start < pte_end && pte_start < (start + size)))) {
>   			printf("Partition overlap\n");
>   			return -1;
>   		}
> 


-- 
Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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