[PATCH 5/5] efi_selftest: Enhance MBR test for PARTITION_INFO_PROTOCOL

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

On 1/20/26 14:36, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The EFI_PARTITION_INFO_PROTOCOL test was added before the protocol fully
> supported MBR partitions. As a result, it lacked specific checks for the
> content of the raw MBR partition record.
> 
> Now that MBR support has been implemented, enhance the selftest to provide
> coverage for the MBR entries too.
> 
> This verifies that the protocol correctly reads and exposes MBR partition
> records and prevents this functionality to regress due future changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>
> ---
> 
>   lib/efi_selftest/efi_selftest_block_device.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/efi_selftest/efi_selftest_block_device.c b/lib/efi_selftest/efi_selftest_block_device.c
> index f145e58a267a..50d1fb29e1ef 100644
> --- a/lib/efi_selftest/efi_selftest_block_device.c
> +++ b/lib/efi_selftest/efi_selftest_block_device.c
> @@ -404,6 +404,18 @@ static int execute(void)
>   			     part_info->system);
>   		return EFI_ST_FAILURE;
>   	}
> +	/* The first partition starts at LBA 1 on the test image */
> +	if (part_info->info.mbr.start_sect != 1) {
> +		efi_st_error("MBR start sector %d, expected 1\n",
> +			     part_info->info.mbr.start_sect);
> +		return EFI_ST_FAILURE;
> +	}
> +	/* The partition type is FAT12 (0x01) in the test image */
> +	if (part_info->info.mbr.sys_ind != 0x01) {
> +		efi_st_error("MBR system indicator %d, expected 1\n",
> +			     part_info->info.mbr.sys_ind);
> +		return EFI_ST_FAILURE;
> +	}

How about defining a static variable with all fields and using memcmp() 
to check them all?

Best regards

Heinrich

>   
>   	/* Open the simple file system protocol */
>   	ret = boottime->open_protocol(handle_partition,