Re: [PATCH v2 18/21] efi/libstub: use 'func' not 'f' as macro parameter

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On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 17:51, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 07:01:36PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > Use 'func' as the macro parameter name for the efi_call() macros
> > which is less likely to collide and cause weird build errors.
> >
>
> For my education, what are the possible collisions/build errors that might happen?
>

I was concerned about variables called 'f' being passed as one of the
arguments, but now that I think of it, I'm not sure how that could
break.

In any case, I'd like to keep this patch since it also increases legibility.

> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h |  4 ++--
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h   | 12 ++++++------
> >  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
> > index 6f041ae446d2..d06305590ac5 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
> > @@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ static inline unsigned long efi_get_max_initrd_addr(unsigned long dram_base,
> >       return (image_addr & ~(SZ_1G - 1UL)) + (1UL << (VA_BITS_MIN - 1));
> >  }
> >
> > -#define efi_call_early(f, ...)               efi_system_table()->boottime->f(__VA_ARGS__)
> > -#define efi_call_runtime(f, ...)     efi_system_table()->runtime->f(__VA_ARGS__)
> > +#define efi_call_early(func, ...)    efi_system_table()->boottime->func(__VA_ARGS__)
> > +#define efi_call_runtime(func, ...)  efi_system_table()->runtime->func(__VA_ARGS__)
> >  #define efi_is_native()                      (true)
> >
> >  #define efi_table_attr(inst, attr)   (inst->attr)
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
> > index 593a8cda8361..ba3f8a98e156 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
> > @@ -236,17 +236,17 @@ static inline bool efi_is_native(void)
> >               ? inst->func(inst, ##__VA_ARGS__)                       \
> >               : efi64_thunk(inst->mixed_mode.func, inst, ##__VA_ARGS__))
> >
> > -#define efi_call_early(f, ...)                                               \
> > +#define efi_call_early(func, ...)                                    \
> >       (efi_is_native()                                                \
> > -             ? efi_system_table()->boottime->f(__VA_ARGS__)          \
> > +             ? efi_system_table()->boottime->func(__VA_ARGS__)       \
> >               : efi64_thunk(efi_table_attr(efi_system_table(),        \
> > -                             boottime)->mixed_mode.f, __VA_ARGS__))
> > +                             boottime)->mixed_mode.func, __VA_ARGS__))
> >
> > -#define efi_call_runtime(f, ...)                                     \
> > +#define efi_call_runtime(func, ...)                                  \
> >       (efi_is_native()                                                \
> > -             ? efi_system_table()->runtime->f(__VA_ARGS__)           \
> > +             ? efi_system_table()->runtime->func(__VA_ARGS__)        \
> >               : efi64_thunk(efi_table_attr(efi_system_table(),        \
> > -                             runtime)->mixed_mode.f, __VA_ARGS__))
> > +                             runtime)->mixed_mode.func, __VA_ARGS__))
> >
> >  extern bool efi_reboot_required(void);
> >  extern bool efi_is_table_address(unsigned long phys_addr);
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >



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