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Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 17:40:52 +0800 From: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@...il.com> To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>, linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] efi_64: Fix a missing-check bug in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 11:18:36AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 04:36, Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@...il.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 06:07:10PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > Apologies for only spotting this now, but I seem to have given some bad advice. > > > > > > efi_call_phys_prolog() in efi_64.c will also return NULL if > > > (!efi_enabled(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP)), but this is not an error condition. So > > > that occurrence has to be updated: please return efi_mm.pgd instead. > > Thanks for your reply, Ard. You mean that we should return efi_mm.pgd > > when allcoation fails? And we should delete return EFI_ABORTED on the > > caller site, right? In that case, how should we handle the NULL pointer > > returned by condition if(!efi_enabled(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP)) on the caller > > site? > > > > No, the other way around. I have already updated the patch, so don't > worry about it. > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git/commit/?h=urgent&id=d2dc2bc7b60b936b95da4b04c2912c02974c3e9f Thanks for your reply and update, Ard! That's really nice of you. Thanks Gen
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