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-rw-r--r--block/partitions/efi.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/block/partitions/efi.c b/block/partitions/efi.c
index 1a5ec9a03c00..1eb09ee5311b 100644
--- a/block/partitions/efi.c
+++ b/block/partitions/efi.c
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ invalid:
*/
static int is_pmbr_valid(legacy_mbr *mbr, sector_t total_sectors)
{
+ uint32_t sz = 0;
int i, part = 0, ret = 0; /* invalid by default */
if (!mbr || le16_to_cpu(mbr->signature) != MSDOS_MBR_SIGNATURE)
@@ -216,12 +217,15 @@ check_hybrid:
/*
* Protective MBRs take up the lesser of the whole disk
* or 2 TiB (32bit LBA), ignoring the rest of the disk.
+ * Some partitioning programs, nonetheless, choose to set
+ * the size to the maximum 32-bit limitation, disregarding
+ * the disk size.
*
* Hybrid MBRs do not necessarily comply with this.
*/
if (ret == GPT_MBR_PROTECTIVE) {
- if (le32_to_cpu(mbr->partition_record[part].size_in_lba) !=
- min((uint32_t) total_sectors - 1, 0xFFFFFFFF))
+ sz = le32_to_cpu(mbr->partition_record[part].size_in_lba);
+ if (sz != (uint32_t) total_sectors - 1 && sz != 0xFFFFFFFF)
ret = 0;
}
done: