Re: [PATCH v3] Fix allocation size calculations

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On 25 October 2016 at 19:03, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 25 October 2016 at 17:36, Roy Franz <roy.franz@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Adjust the size used in calculations to match the actual size of allocation
>> that will be performed based on EFI size/alignment constraints.
>> efi_high_alloc() and efi_low_alloc() use the passed size in bytes directly
>> to find space in the memory map for the allocation, rather than the actual
>> allocation size that has been adjusted for size and alignment constraints.
>> This results in failed allocations and retries in efi_high_alloc().  The
>> same error is present in efi_low_alloc(), although failure will only happen
>> if the lowest memory block is small.
>> Also use EFI_PAGE_SIZE consistently and remove use of EFI_PAGE_SHIFT to
>> calculate page size.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@xxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Applied, thanks.
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