[PATCH] block: store GPT attributes as a raw value

Vincent Mailhol <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-block,org.kernel.vger.linux-efi,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
struct _gpt_entry_attributes currently models the GPT partition entry
attributes field with bitfields. This is broken on machines using the
__BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD ABI because GPT always stores the attributes on
disk as a 64-bit little-endian.

No current code consumes individual fields from that structure. So just
remove struct _gpt_entry_attributes entirely and replace it by an __le64
value in struct _gpt_entry instead. This lets users apply endian-aware
masks explicitly when inspecting attribute bits.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <[email protected]>
---
 block/partitions/efi.h | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/partitions/efi.h b/block/partitions/efi.h
index 84b9f36b9e47..1f56f93b2804 100644
--- a/block/partitions/efi.h
+++ b/block/partitions/efi.h
@@ -75,18 +75,12 @@ typedef struct _gpt_header {
 	 */
 } __packed gpt_header;
 
-typedef struct _gpt_entry_attributes {
-	u64 required_to_function:1;
-	u64 reserved:47;
-        u64 type_guid_specific:16;
-} __packed gpt_entry_attributes;
-
 typedef struct _gpt_entry {
 	efi_guid_t partition_type_guid;
 	efi_guid_t unique_partition_guid;
 	__le64 starting_lba;
 	__le64 ending_lba;
-	gpt_entry_attributes attributes;
+	__le64 attributes;
 	__le16 partition_name[72/sizeof(__le16)];
 } __packed gpt_entry;
 

---
base-commit: 1590cf0329716306e948a8fc29f1d3ee87d3989f
change-id: 20260724-fix_gpt_entry_attributes-e5af9e080ce1

Best regards,
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Vincent Mailhol <[email protected]>
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