[PATCH] zfs: fix root dataset detection on encrypted pools

Christian Schoenebeck via Grub-devel <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Feb 2026 19:56:00 +0100
Newsgroups org.gnu.grub-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
grub-probe fails on encrypted zfs pools, causing $rpool variable
to be empty. Therefore check variables $rpool and $bootfs to
be both non-empty strings before assembling LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE.

If one of the two variables is empty, use "zfs list" as fallback
for detecting the zfs root dataset instead.

Signed-off-by: Christian Schoenebeck <[email protected]>
---
 util/grub.d/10_linux.in | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/util/grub.d/10_linux.in b/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
index 07649cd3b..acbd2ab64 100644
--- a/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
+++ b/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
@@ -75,7 +75,13 @@ case x"$GRUB_FS" in
     xzfs)
 	rpool=`${grub_probe} --device ${GRUB_DEVICE} --target=fs_label 2>/dev/null || zdb -l ${GRUB_DEVICE} | awk -F \' '/ name/ { print $2 }'`
 	bootfs="`make_system_path_relative_to_its_root / | sed -e "s,@$,,"`"
-	LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE="ZFS=${rpool}${bootfs%/}"
+	# grub-probe fails on encrypted zfs pools, use zfs list as fallback
+	if [ -n "$rpool" ] && [ -n "$bootfs" ]; then
+	    LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE="ZFS=${rpool}${bootfs%/}"
+	else
+	    root_dataset=`zfs list -Ho mountpoint,name | grep '^/[[:space:]]' | tail -n1 | cut -f 2 2>/dev/null || true`
+	    LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE="ZFS=${root_dataset}"
+	fi
 	;;
 esac
 
-- 
2.47.3


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