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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-10-16 21:36:03 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-10-16 21:36:03 -0700
commit056cdce0d3a214158f3a4ea40887b22639f855a8 (patch)
tree8ced4ccf6c7bac7eef49710c3cdfb0745cc85102 /block
parent0056019da4b7ee5ab51fb174fe0655278578516f (diff)
parent57a8f0cdb87da776bf0e4ce7554a9133854fa779 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (fixes from Andrew Morton)
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton. * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (21 commits) mm: revert mremap pud_free anti-fix mm: fix BUG in __split_huge_page_pmd swap: fix set_blocksize race during swapon/swapoff procfs: call default get_unmapped_area on MMU-present architectures procfs: fix unintended truncation of returned mapped address writeback: fix negative bdi max pause percpu_refcount: export symbols fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator mm: memcg: handle non-error OOM situations more gracefully tools/testing/selftests: fix uninitialized variable block/partitions/efi.c: treat size mismatch as a warning, not an error mm: hugetlb: initialize PG_reserved for tail pages of gigantic compound pages mm/zswap: bugfix: memory leak when re-swapon mm: /proc/pid/pagemap: inspect _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY only on present pages mm: migration: do not lose soft dirty bit if page is in migration state gcov: MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for gcov mm/hugetlb.c: correct missing private flag clearing mm/vmscan.c: don't forget to free shrinker->nr_deferred ipc/sem.c: synchronize semop and semctl with IPC_RMID ipc: update locking scheme comments ...
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-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 1eb09ee5311b..a8287b49d062 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;