[PATCH 3/3] block: efi: allow disabling /dev/usbdiskX renaming
Ahmad Fatoum
a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Thu Jun 30 05:40:35 PDT 2022
Some buggy UEFI implementations have been observed to not set
EFI_USB_IO protocol on handles that were instantiated from
USB mass storage. This leads to confusing behavior when barebox
uses /dev/usbdisk for some USB sticks and doesn't for some others.
The proper behavior is not relying on the UEFI and instead check
e.g. GUID of the boot disk image:
if [ "$bootsource" = usb ]; then
mydisk = /dev/usbdisk${bootsource_instance}
else
mydisk = /dev/disk${bootsource_instance}
fi
devlookup -v bootdiskguid $mydisk guid
if [ "$bootdiskguid" = "my-guid" ]; then
boot ${mydisk}.1
else
boot boochooser
fi
When going that way, the renaming to usbdisk is just annoying,
so allow disabling it to simplify scripting.
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
drivers/block/Kconfig | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/block/Makefile | 2 +-
drivers/block/efi-block-io.c | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index 68a11438dcf3..625e81a4ec97 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -5,3 +5,24 @@ config VIRTIO_BLK
help
This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with
QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen).
+
+config EFI_BLK
+ bool "EFI block I/O driver"
+ default y
+ depends on EFI_BOOTUP
+
+config EFI_BLK_SEPARATE_USBDISK
+ bool "rename USB devices to /dev/usbdiskX"
+ default y
+ depends on EFI_BLK
+ help
+ EFI block devices will be normally called /dev/diskX. Setting this
+ option will cause block devices instantiated from handles with a
+ EFI_USB_IO protocol to be called /dev/usbdiskX instead. Note that
+ some buggy UEFI implementations have been observed to not do this
+ consistently for all USB mass storage. If you need to absolutely
+ be sure your boot device is a USB mass storage device and you can't
+ fix your UEFI, consider disabling this options and setting a GUID
+ for your disk and checking against it with
+
+ devlookup -v $bootguid /dev/disk$bootsource_instance guid
diff --git a/drivers/block/Makefile b/drivers/block/Makefile
index c50bdc1d02bd..a4e14a559cf7 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/block/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_BOOTUP) += efi-block-io.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_BLK) += efi-block-io.o
obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK) += virtio_blk.o
diff --git a/drivers/block/efi-block-io.c b/drivers/block/efi-block-io.c
index 086afb378ab4..120e4d8f1ad2 100644
--- a/drivers/block/efi-block-io.c
+++ b/drivers/block/efi-block-io.c
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ static void efi_bio_print_info(struct device_d *dev)
static bool is_bio_usbdev(struct efi_device *efidev)
{
- return efi_device_has_guid(efidev, EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL_GUID);
+ return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI_BLK_SEPARATE_USBDISK) &&
+ efi_device_has_guid(efidev, EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL_GUID);
}
static int efi_bio_probe(struct efi_device *efidev)
--
2.30.2
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