[patch 3/7 v2] Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function
Dave Young
dyoung at redhat.com
Wed Nov 13 20:39:55 EST 2013
On 11/13/13 at 03:50pm, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Nov, at 04:20:10PM, dyoung at redhat.com wrote:
> > Add two small functions:
> > efi_merge_regions and efi_map_regions, efi_enter_virtual_mode
> > calls them instead of embedding two long for loop.
> >
> > v1->v2:
> > refresh; coding style fixes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> > 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>
> [...]
>
> > @@ -860,17 +840,59 @@ void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
> > efi.systab = (efi_system_table_t *) (unsigned long) systab;
> > }
> >
> > - new_memmap = krealloc(new_memmap,
> > - (count + 1) * memmap.desc_size,
> > - GFP_KERNEL);
> > - if (!new_memmap)
> > + *new_memmap = krealloc(*new_memmap,
> > + (*count + 1) * memmap.desc_size,
> > + GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (!*new_memmap)
> > goto err_out;
> >
> > - memcpy(new_memmap + (count * memmap.desc_size), md,
> > + memcpy(*new_memmap + (*count * memmap.desc_size), md,
> > memmap.desc_size);
> > - count++;
> > + (*count)++;
> > }
> >
> > +err_out:
> > + pr_err("Error reallocating memory, EFI runtime non-functional!\n");
> > +}
>
> You should really return an error value here so that we don't
> dereference 'new_memmap' below if it's NULL. In fact, just return the
> memmap...
Good catch, will do
>
> > +
> > + efi_merge_regions();
> > +
> > + efi_map_regions(&new_memmap, &count);
> > +
>
> and make sure to check the return value here.
Ok.
> --
> Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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