[PATCH SLOF] disk-label: add support for booting from GPT FAT partition

[Nikunj A Dadhania]

Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:48:49 +0530
> Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> +   block-size * to seek-pos
>> +   block gpt>part-entry-size l at -le to gpt-part-size
>> +   block gpt>num-part-entry l at -le dup 0= IF FALSE EXIT THEN
>> +   1+ 1 ?DO
>> +      seek-pos 0 seek drop
>> +      block gpt-part-size read drop
>
> Can you be sure that gpt-part-size is only smaller than 4096 bytes
> here? 

So the size is usually 128, so this should be fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

Section: GPT header format

"84 (0x54)	4 bytes	Size of a single partition entry (usually 128)"

> If not, you might overflow the block array, don't you?

Regards
Nikunj