[PATCH 15/19] block: store GPT attributes as a raw value

From: Vincent Mailhol

Date: Mon Jun 15 2026 - 12:21:14 EST


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.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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;


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