linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH Part1 v5 30/38] x86/compressed/64: store Confidential Computing blob address in bootparams

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Date:   Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:26:28 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH Part1 v5 30/38] x86/compressed/64: store Confidential
 Computing blob address in bootparams

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 02:09:55PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote:
> Most of the #ifdef'ery is due to the EFI scan, so I moved that part out
> to a separate helper, snp_probe_cc_blob_efi(), that lives in
> boot/compressed.sev.c. Still not pretty, but would this be acceptable?

It is still ugly... :)

I guess you should simply do two separate functions - one doing the
compressed dance and the other the later parsing and keep 'em separate.
It's not like you're duplicating a ton of code so...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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