Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] efi/capsule: Add 'capsule' lookup support

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On 2 March 2017 at 16:44, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Mar, at 03:38:51PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>
>> > +       if (!capsule)
>> > +               return -ENOMEM;
>> > +
>> > +       capsule += sizeof(uint32_t);
>>
>> This is incorrect for 64-bit. You need to increment by the size of
>> unsigned long here, regardless of the size of efi_capsule_num.
>
> I'm almost positive this is correct, but I can't find the bit in the
> spec that says why. We're not trying to step over a pointer here, if
> memory serves, it's a capsule count or something and uint32_t is the
> right type.
>

Yes, but the next struct member is an array of pointers, so you need
to advance 8 bytes to get to it due to its alignment
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