When reading data off a disk, sector values are based on the disk sector
length.
Within grub_util_fd_open_device(), the start of the partition was taken
directly from grub's partition information structure, which uses the
internal sector length (currently 512b), but never transformed to the
disk's sector length.
Subsequent calculations were all wrong for devices that have a diverging
sector length and the functions eventually skipped to the wrong stream
location, reading invalid data.
Signed-off-by: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
strlcpy is not available on Linux as part of standard libraries.
It probably is not worth extra configure checks espicially as we
need to handle missing function anyway.
This lets us cope with block device drivers that don't implement
HDIO_GETGEO. Fixes Ubuntu bug #1237519.
* grub-core/osdep/linux/hostdisk.c (sysfs_partition_path): New
function.
(sysfs_partition_start): Likewise.
(grub_util_find_partition_start_os): Try sysfs_partition_start
before HDIO_GETGEO.
