linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fix

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Message-ID: <20140620092848.GC23939@arm.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:28:48 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fix

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Please pull the following compiler warning fix. Sorry, I've been pretty
> slow in getting this pull request sent. Multiple people have reported
> hitting it and I've now received 4 patches for the same warning,

BTW, one of them is not just a simple warning but a bug. Pointer to
"long" variable on the stack passed to a function that only takes a
pointer to "int". We are probably lucky that we don't hit the bug on
arm64.

Anyway, thanks for pushing the fix.

(and lesson learnt not to trust the ARM EFI_STUB developers, won't name
them, with properly testing their code ;))

-- 
Catalin
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