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From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Skip Apple ghosts
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:26:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52B98B9A.5020609@gmail.com> (raw)


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Hello, all. It was discovered that on macs sometimes firmware defines
ghost disks with vendor suffix. E.g.
/ACPI(a0341d0,0)/PCI(2,1f)/UnknownMessaging(12)/EndEntire
is a normal disks with partitions presented with HD(...) but then
/ACPI(a0341d0,0)/PCI(2,1f)/UnknownMessaging(12)/MediaVendor(Apple)[0:
]/EndEntire
is a ghost disk. It has as suffix a vendor path with empty vendor data.
This is a problem because when chainloading on such disks GRUB can't
find handle of partition as none is defined. I propose to dkip ghosts
completely. This should be safe as the skip happens only for empty Apple
vendor suffix and if the parent is already a known disk.
Did anyone see anything similar?

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diff --git a/grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c b/grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c
index e04203f..3b12c34 100644
--- a/grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c
+++ b/grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c
@@ -333,6 +333,21 @@ name_devices (struct grub_efidisk_data *devices)
       if (! dp)
 	continue;
 
+      /* Ghosts proudly presented by Apple.  */
+      if (GRUB_EFI_DEVICE_PATH_TYPE (dp) == GRUB_EFI_MEDIA_DEVICE_PATH_TYPE
+	  && GRUB_EFI_DEVICE_PATH_SUBTYPE (dp)
+	  == GRUB_EFI_VENDOR_MEDIA_DEVICE_PATH_SUBTYPE)
+	{
+	  grub_efi_vendor_device_path_t *vendor = (grub_efi_vendor_device_path_t *) dp;
+	  const struct grub_efi_guid apple = GRUB_EFI_VENDOR_APPLE_GUID;
+
+	  if (vendor->header.length == sizeof (*vendor)
+	      && grub_memcmp (&vendor->vendor_guid, &apple,
+			      sizeof (vendor->vendor_guid)) == 0
+	      && find_parent_device (devices, d))
+	    continue;
+	}
+
       m = d->block_io->media;
       if (GRUB_EFI_DEVICE_PATH_TYPE (dp) == GRUB_EFI_ACPI_DEVICE_PATH_TYPE
 	  && GRUB_EFI_DEVICE_PATH_SUBTYPE (dp)

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             reply	other threads:[~2013-12-24 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-24 13:26 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2013-12-24 16:44 ` [PATCH] Skip Apple ghosts Andrey Borzenkov
2013-12-24 17:00   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-01-07 18:17 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2014-01-07 18:20 ` Andrey Borzenkov

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