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Message-ID: <20161122203631.GB1844@wunner.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:36:31 +0100
From: Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>,
linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] efi: Get the secure boot status
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 02:52:01PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de> wrote:
> > You dropped the efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg argument but this
> > isn't defined anywhere as a static global.
>
> It seems to me that passing this value in on x86 is probably a bad idea as
> it's not mixed-mode safe. Should I just pass NULL there in that case?
It's safe, it's merely a pointer below 4 Gig. Just on dereference it
needs to be cast to the correct variant. Passing in sys_table_arg is
done all over the place in the EFI stub, see e.g. efi_printk().
Best regards,
Lukas
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