[PATCH SLOF v2 5/5] disk-label: add support for booting from GPT FAT partition

Thomas Huth thuth at redhat.com
Mon Jun 29 19:17:24 AEST 2015


On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:15:29 +0530
Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> For a GPT+LVM combination disk, older bootloader that does not support
> LVM, cannot load kernel from LVM.
> 
> The patch adds support to read from BASIC_DATA UUID partitions for the
> case that the OS installer has installed the CHRP-BOOT config on a FAT
> file system.
> 
> Makes GPT detection robust
> * Check for Protective MBR Magic
> * Check for valid GPT Signature
> * Boundary check for allocated block size before reading into the
>   buffer
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  slof/fs/packages/disk-label.fs | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/slof/fs/packages/disk-label.fs b/slof/fs/packages/disk-label.fs
> index 7ed5526..e5759a3 100644
> --- a/slof/fs/packages/disk-label.fs
> +++ b/slof/fs/packages/disk-label.fs
...
> @@ -378,29 +382,80 @@ AA268B49521E5A8B    CONSTANT GPT-PREP-PARTITION-4
>     true
>  ;
>  
> -: load-from-gpt-prep-partition ( addr -- size )
> -   no-gpt? IF drop false EXIT THEN
> -   debug-disk-label? IF
> -      cr ." GPT partition found " cr
> -   THEN
> -   1 read-disk-buf disk-buf gpt>part-entry-lba l at -le
> +\ Check for GPT MSFT BASIC DATA GUID - fat based
> +EBD0A0A2            CONSTANT GPT-BASIC-DATA-PARTITION-1
> +B9E5                CONSTANT GPT-BASIC-DATA-PARTITION-2
> +4433                CONSTANT GPT-BASIC-DATA-PARTITION-3
> +87C068B6B72699C7    CONSTANT GPT-BASIC-DATA-PARTITION-4
> +
> +: gpt-basic-data-partition? ( -- true|false )
> +   disk-buf gpt-part-entry>part-type-guid
> +   dup l at -le     GPT-BASIC-DATA-PARTITION-1 <> IF drop false EXIT THEN
> +   dup 4 + w at -le GPT-BASIC-DATA-PARTITION-2 <> IF drop false EXIT THEN
> +   dup 6 + w at -le GPT-BASIC-DATA-PARTITION-3 <> IF drop false EXIT THEN
> +       8 + x@    GPT-BASIC-DATA-PARTITION-4 <> IF false EXIT THEN
> +   true
> +;

You could remove the "<> IF false EXIT THEN true" at the end and
replace it with a simple "=".

> +\
> +\ GPT Signature
> +\ ("EFI PART", 45h 46h 49h 20h 50h 41h 52h 54h)
> +\
> +4546492050415254 CONSTANT GPT-SIGNATURE
> +
> +: verify-gpt-partition ( -- true | false )

I'd prefer if you could write "true|false" without spaces around the
"|" so that it is clear at a glance that there is only one item on the
stack.

Could you maybe also add a comment above the function that it sets up
gpt-part-size with the size of partition entry and seek-pos with the
position of the partition entry? ...since these are non-obvious
side-effect of this function... All in all, maybe you should also name
the function differently, since it does more than just verifying.

> +   no-gpt? IF false EXIT THEN
> +   debug-disk-label? IF cr ." GPT partition found " cr  THEN
> +   1 read-disk-buf
> +   disk-buf gpt>part-entry-lba x at -le
>     block-size * to seek-pos
>     disk-buf gpt>part-entry-size l at -le to gpt-part-size
> -   disk-buf gpt>num-part-entry l at -le dup 0= IF false EXIT THEN
> +   gpt-part-size disk-buf-size > IF
> +      cr ." GPT part size exceeds buffer allocated " cr
> +      false exit
> +   THEN
> +   disk-buf gpt>signature x@ GPT-SIGNATURE =
> +;
> +
> +: load-from-gpt-prep-partition ( addr -- size )
> +   verify-gpt-partition 0= IF false EXIT THEN
> +   disk-buf gpt>num-part-entry l at -le dup 0= IF false exit THEN
>     1+ 1 ?DO
>        seek-pos 0 seek drop
>        disk-buf gpt-part-size read drop gpt-prep-partition? IF
> -         debug-disk-label? IF
> -            ." GPT PReP partition found " cr
> -         THEN
> -         disk-buf gpt-part-entry>first-lba x at -le
> -         disk-buf gpt-part-entry>last-lba x at -le
> -         over - 1+                 ( addr offset len )
> -         swap                      ( addr len offset )
> -         block-size * to part-offset
> -         0 0 seek drop             ( addr len )
> -         block-size * read         ( size )
> +         debug-disk-label? IF  ." GPT PReP partition found " cr THEN
> +         disk-buf gpt-part-entry>first-lba x at -le ( addr first-lba )
> +         disk-buf gpt-part-entry>last-lba x at -le  ( addr first-lba last-lba)
> +         over - 1+                            ( addr first-lba blocks )
> +         swap                                 ( addr blocks )

The stack comment looks wrong here, should this be:

 ( addr blocks first-lba )

?

> +         block-size * to part-offset          ( addr blocks )
> +         0 0 seek drop                        ( addr blocks )
> +         block-size * read                    ( size )
>           UNLOOP EXIT
> +     THEN
> +     seek-pos gpt-part-size i * + to seek-pos
> +   LOOP
> +   false
> +;
> +
> +: try-gpt-dos-partition ( -- true | false )

"true | false" --> "true|false" ?

> +   verify-gpt-partition 0= IF false EXIT THEN
> +   disk-buf gpt>num-part-entry l at -le dup 0= IF false EXIT THEN
> +   1+ 1 ?DO
> +      seek-pos 0 seek drop
> +      disk-buf gpt-part-size read drop
> +      gpt-basic-data-partition? IF
> +         debug-disk-label? IF ." GPT LINUX DATA partition found " cr THEN

I think that string should maybe rather talk about "basic data
partition" instead of "LINUX data partition" ?

> +         disk-buf gpt-part-entry>first-lba x at -le       ( first-lba )
> +         dup to part-start                          ( first-lba )
> +         disk-buf gpt-part-entry>last-lba x at -le        ( first-lba last-lba )
> +         over - 1+                                  ( first-lba s1 )
> +         block-size * to part-size                  ( first-lba )
> +         block-size * to part-offset                ( )
> +         0 0 seek drop                              ( )
> +         disk-buf block-size read drop                 ( )
> +         disk-buf fat-bootblock? 0= IF false UNLOOP EXIT THEN
> +         true UNLOOP EXIT

You could simplify the above two lines to:

            disk-buf fat-bootblock?
            UNLOOP EXIT

>        THEN
>        seek-pos gpt-part-size i * + to seek-pos
>     LOOP
> @@ -492,7 +547,7 @@ AA268B49521E5A8B    CONSTANT GPT-PREP-PARTITION-4
>  
>     debug-disk-label? IF ." Trying CHRP boot " .s cr THEN
>     1 disk-chrp-boot !
> -   dup load-chrp-boot-file ?dup 0 <> IF .s cr nip EXIT THEN
> +   dup load-chrp-boot-file ?dup 0 <> IF nip EXIT THEN
>     0 disk-chrp-boot !
>  
>     debug-disk-label? IF ." Trying GPT boot " .s cr THEN
> @@ -592,6 +647,7 @@ AA268B49521E5A8B    CONSTANT GPT-PREP-PARTITION-4
>  
>  : try-partitions ( -- found? )
>     try-dos-partition IF try-files EXIT THEN
> +   try-gpt-dos-partition IF try-files EXIT THEN
>     \ try-iso9660-partition IF try-files EXIT THEN
>     \ ... more partition types here...
>     false

 Thomas


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