* Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The spec allows ExitBootServices to fail with EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER if a
> race condition has occurred where the EFI has updated the memory map after
> the stub grabbed a reference to the map. The spec defines a retry
> proceedure with specific requirements to handle this scenario.
>
> This scenario was previously observed on x86 - commit d3768d885c6c ("x86,
> efi: retry ExitBootServices() on failure") but the current fix is not spec
> compliant and the scenario is now observed on the Qualcomm Technologies
> QDF2432 via the FDT stub which does not handle the error and thus causes
> boot failures.
It's unclear what this 'scenario' is. How does the user notice?
> Add a helper to the stub library that correctly adhears to the spec in the
> case of EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER from ExitBootServices and can be universally
> used across all stub implementations.
s/'adheres to'
> + status = efi_call_early(exit_boot_services, handle,
> + *map->key_ptr);
Please don't add spurious linebreaks in such a case - just keep it a bit longer
than col80.
> + if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
> + /* exit_boot_services() was called, thus cannot free*/
> + goto fail;
Non-standard comment format and comment placement.
Thanks,
Ingo
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