On Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 03:18:37PM +0800, Michael Chang via Grub-devel wrote:
> This patch prepares for using an environment block stored in a reserved
> area of the filesystem. It uses constant GRUB_ENV_BTRFS_OFFSET at 256
> KiB in the Btrfs header. It also introduces the fs_envblk_spec and
> fs_envblk structures together with the probe_fs_envblk function to
> identify the root filesystem and to avoid configurations that involve
> diskfilter or cryptodisk.
>
> The probe is only invoked when grub-editenv is working on the default
> environment file path. This restriction ensures that probing and
> possible raw device access are not triggered for arbitrary user supplied
> paths, but only for the standard grubenv file. In that case the code
> checks if the filename equals DEFAULT_ENVBLK_PATH and then calls
> probe_fs_envblk with fs_envblk_spec. The result is stored in the global
> fs_envblk handle. At this stage the external environment block is only
> detected and recorded, and the behavior of grub-editenv is unchanged.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chang <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Avnish Chouhan <[email protected]>
> ---
>  util/grub-editenv.c | 164 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 163 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/util/grub-editenv.c b/util/grub-editenv.c
> index db6f187cc..e650cbcd0 100644
> --- a/util/grub-editenv.c
> +++ b/util/grub-editenv.c
> @@ -23,8 +23,11 @@
>  #include <grub/util/misc.h>
>  #include <grub/lib/envblk.h>
>  #include <grub/i18n.h>
> -#include <grub/emu/hostfile.h>
> +#include <grub/emu/hostdisk.h>
>  #include <grub/util/install.h>
> +#include <grub/emu/getroot.h>
> +#include <grub/fs.h>
> +#include <grub/crypto.h>
>
>  #include <stdio.h>
>  #include <unistd.h>
> @@ -120,6 +123,36 @@ block, use `rm %s'."),
>    NULL, help_filter, NULL
>  };
>
> +struct fs_envblk_spec {
> +  const char *fs_name;
> +  off_t offset;
> +  size_t size;
> +};
> +typedef struct fs_envblk_spec fs_envblk_spec_t;
> +
> +struct fs_envblk {
> +  fs_envblk_spec_t *spec;
> +  const char *dev;
> +};
> +typedef struct fs_envblk *fs_envblk_t;
> +
> +/*
> + * fs_envblk_spec describes the file-system specific layout of reserved raw
> + * blocks used as environment blocks. At present only Btrfs is supported. 
> Other
> + * file-systems may be added if they provide a similar facility and avoid the
> + * limitation of writing to COW.
> + *
> + * Note: If this table is modified, also update
> + * grub-core/fs/btrfs.c::btrfs_head, which defines the layout in the Btrfs
> + * header and exports GRUB_ENV_BTRFS_OFFSET, so that both stay consistent.
> + */
> +static fs_envblk_spec_t fs_envblk_spec[] = {
> +  { "btrfs", GRUB_ENV_BTRFS_OFFSET, GRUB_DISK_SECTOR_SIZE },

Again, this change does not belong to this patch. It should be merged
with patch #3. Then then patch #3 should be moved behind patch #9.

Otherwise patch LGTM...

Daniel

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