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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-11-01 08:10:58 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-11-01 08:24:41 +0100
commitfb10d5b7efbcc0aa9e46a9aa5ad86772c7bacb9a (patch)
treeea284fe7b9c17a85b8d3c4ba999d6e26d51a12f6 /block/partitions/efi.c
parentf9f9ffc237dd924f048204e8799da74f9ecf40cf (diff)
parent52469b4fcd4fc433ffc78cec4cf94368e9052890 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Resolve cherry-picking conflicts: Conflicts: mm/huge_memory.c mm/memory.c mm/mprotect.c See this upstream merge commit for more details: 52469b4fcd4f Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/partitions/efi.c')
-rw-r--r--block/partitions/efi.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/partitions/efi.c b/block/partitions/efi.c
index 1eb09ee5311..a8287b49d06 100644
--- a/block/partitions/efi.c
+++ b/block/partitions/efi.c
@@ -222,11 +222,16 @@ check_hybrid:
* the disk size.
*
* Hybrid MBRs do not necessarily comply with this.
+ *
+ * Consider a bad value here to be a warning to support dd'ing
+ * an image from a smaller disk to a larger disk.
*/
if (ret == GPT_MBR_PROTECTIVE) {
sz = le32_to_cpu(mbr->partition_record[part].size_in_lba);
if (sz != (uint32_t) total_sectors - 1 && sz != 0xFFFFFFFF)
- ret = 0;
+ pr_debug("GPT: mbr size in lba (%u) different than whole disk (%u).\n",
+ sz, min_t(uint32_t,
+ total_sectors - 1, 0xFFFFFFFF));
}
done:
return ret;