Re: [PATCH] efi: Check the number of EFI configuration tables entries

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On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 18:24, Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Only try and access the EFI configuration tables if there there are any
> reported. This allows EFI to be continued to used on systems where there
> are no configuration table entries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c | 3 +++
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c     | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> index 95e77a667ba5..a6d0e6afee8f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> @@ -486,6 +486,9 @@ int __init efi_reuse_config(u64 tables, int nr_tables)
>         if (!data->smbios)
>                 goto out_memremap;
>
> +       if (nr_tables == 0)
> +               goto out_memremap;
> +

So what is the point of executing the function all the way up to this
point? Can't we just return immediately at the beginning?

>         sz = sizeof(efi_config_table_64_t);
>
>         p = tablep = early_memremap(tables, nr_tables * sz);
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> index 415849bab233..185424a8b879 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> @@ -628,6 +628,9 @@ int __init efi_config_init(efi_config_table_type_t *arch_tables)
>         void *config_tables;
>         int sz, ret;
>
> +       if (efi.systab->nr_tables == 0)
> +               return 0;
> +
>         if (efi_enabled(EFI_64BIT))
>                 sz = sizeof(efi_config_table_64_t);
>         else
> --
> 2.20.1
>



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