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 11:51:09 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, 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]

Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> wrote:

> > 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?

Okay, I've pulled in your patch and removed the cast.

I would like to provide wrapper static inlines for things like
efi_get_variable() to get the parameter checking, but the sys_table_arg
behind-the-scenes parameter is tricky to deal with in that case.

David