From: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@gmail.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] efi_64: Fix a missing-check bug in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 10:36:08 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190525023608.GA11613@zhanggen-UX430UQ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu_wRYZdDYXso0B5m_BPJznGQXpCWq4_0u34bConu0V1ow@mail.gmail.com>
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?
Thanks
Gen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-25 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20190517082633.GA3890@zhanggen-UX430UQ>
2019-05-17 8:41 ` [PATCH] efi_64: Fix a missing-check bug in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c of Linux 5.1 Ard Biesheuvel
[not found] ` <20190517090628.GA4162@zhanggen-UX430UQ>
2019-05-17 9:24 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-05-17 9:43 ` Gen Zhang
2019-05-23 0:51 ` [PATCH v2] efi_64: Fix a missing-check bug in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c Gen Zhang
2019-05-24 16:07 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-05-25 2:36 ` Gen Zhang [this message]
2019-05-25 9:18 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-05-25 9:40 ` Gen Zhang
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