linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] arm/efi: Allow invocation of arbitrary runtime services [ver #2]

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Date:   Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:35:01 +0000
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
        "linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] arm/efi: Allow invocation of arbitrary runtime
 services [ver #2]

On 23 November 2016 at 09:34, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
> David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
>> +#define efi_call_runtime(f, ...)     sys_table_arg->runtime->f(__VA_ARGS__)
>
> Turns out it's not that simple - of course.  runtime->get_variable is just a
> void pointer.  The old arm stub was casting it by virtue of assignment to a
> function pointer variable.
>
> The x86_64 appears to be doing bypassing all the compile-time type checking by
> passing the arguments through an ellipsis and then fixing up the argument list
> in the ->call() function.
>
> What I've changed the ARM and ARM64 things to is:
>
>         #define efi_call_runtime(f, ...)        ((efi_##f##_t *)sys_table_arg->runtime->f)(__VA_ARGS__)
>

Could we please instead fix the definition of efi_runtime_services_t,
given that we have typedefs already for all its members?