From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
jamin.collins@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] disk/efi: skip iPXE dummy block devices
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 06:19:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <257751b4-373c-a151-8685-b33b3eb2215a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170314030307.GA27844@linux-9gqx.suse.de>
14.03.2017 06:03, Michael Chang пишет:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 06:45:02AM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>> iPXE adds Simple File System Protocol to loaded image handle, as side
>> effect it also adds Block IO protocol (according to comments, to work
>> around some bugs in EDK2). GRUB assumes that every device with Block IO
>> is disk and skips network initialization entirely. But iPXE Block IO
>> implementation is just a stub which always fails for every operation
>> so cannot be used. Attempt to detect and skip such devices.
>>
>> We are using media ID which iPXE sets to "iPXE" and block IO size in
>> hope that no real device would announce 1B block ...
>>
>> Closes: 50518
>>
>> @Vladimir, @Daniel - this is probably 2.02 material. We cannot use
>> any device that advertises block size less than 512B anyway, so it
>> should not cause regression for disk boot.
>>
>> It is my fault, I have seen it earlier but was busy with another problem
>> so just worked around it to continue testing.
>>
>> ---
>> grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c | 9 +++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c b/grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c
>> index 3b79f7b..47a4e99 100644
>> --- a/grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c
>> +++ b/grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c
>> @@ -80,6 +80,15 @@ make_devices (void)
>> /* This should not happen... Why? */
>> continue;
>>
>> + /* iPXE adds stub Block IO protocol to loaded image device handle. It is
>> + completely non-functional and simply returns an error for every method.
>> + So attempt to detect and skip it. Magic number is literal "iPXE" and
>> + check block size as well */
>> + /* FIXME: shoud we close it? We do not do it elsewhere */
>> + if (bio->media && bio->media->media_id == 0x69505845U &&
>
> It seems that BE to LE conversion is required here as it tests for 'EXPi' on LE
> systems.
>
iPXE sets it to this literal number:
#define EFI_MEDIA_ID_MAGIC 0x69505845
/** Dummy block I/O media */
static EFI_BLOCK_IO_MEDIA efi_block_io_media = {
.MediaId = EFI_MEDIA_ID_MAGIC,
.MediaPresent = TRUE,
.ReadOnly = TRUE,
.BlockSize = 1,
};
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>> + bio->media->block_size == 1)
>> + continue;
>> +
>> d = grub_malloc (sizeof (*d));
>> if (! d)
>> {
>> --
>> tg: (bcf3c55..) bug/50518 (depends on: master)
>>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-13 3:45 [PATCH] disk/efi: skip iPXE dummy block devices Andrei Borzenkov
2017-03-14 3:03 ` Michael Chang
2017-03-14 3:19 ` Andrei Borzenkov [this message]
2017-03-14 4:57 ` Michael Chang
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