[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 03/16] efi: Add error checking for efi_init_obj_list()

[Simon Glass]

Hi Heinrich,

On 4 December 2017 at 15:21, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/04/2017 10:28 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>
>> This function calls a function which can fail. Print a message in this
>> case and abort the boot, rather than silently continuing to boot, which
>> will certainly fail.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Change return type of efi_init_obj_list() to efi_status_t
>>
>>   cmd/bootefi.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>>   1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/cmd/bootefi.c b/cmd/bootefi.c
>> index 17b26e6f4e..a2138f6075 100644
>> --- a/cmd/bootefi.c
>> +++ b/cmd/bootefi.c
>> @@ -25,11 +25,17 @@ static uint8_t efi_obj_list_initalized;
>>   static struct efi_device_path *bootefi_image_path;
>>   static struct efi_device_path *bootefi_device_path;
>>   -/* Initialize and populate EFI object list */
>> -static void efi_init_obj_list(void)
>> +/**
>> + * efi_init_obj_list() - Initialize and populate EFI object list
>> + *
>> + * @return 0 if OK, -ve on error (in which case it prints a message)
>> + */
>> +static efi_status_t efi_init_obj_list(void)
>>   {
>> +       efi_status_t ret;
>> +
>>         if (efi_obj_list_initalized)
>> -               return;
>> +               return 0;
>>         efi_obj_list_initalized = 1;
>>         efi_console_register();
>> @@ -43,12 +49,19 @@ static void efi_init_obj_list(void)
>>         efi_net_register();
>
>
> This function can also fail. Same is true for efi_gop_register.
>
>>   #endif
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_GENERATE_SMBIOS_TABLE
>> -       efi_smbios_register();
>> +       ret = efi_smbios_register();
>> +       if (ret)
>
>
> if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS)
>

Please can we avoid this obfuscation? It really pains me to see what I
consider to be stupidity in the code. Can we just agree that success
is 0 in U-Boot/?

>> +               goto error;
>>   #endif
>>         /* Initialize EFI runtime services */
>>         efi_reset_system_init();
>>         efi_get_time_init();
>> +
>> +       return EFI_SUCCESS;
>> +error:
>> +       printf("Error: Cannot set up EFI object list (err=%d)\n", ret);
>
>
> Now we have some objects initialized and others not.
> Before returning we should clean up.
> We should free all allocated objects.

OK let me take another look at this.

>
> Best regards
>
> Heinrich
>
>
>> +       return ret;
>>   }
>>     static void *copy_fdt(void *fdt)
>> @@ -137,6 +150,7 @@ static unsigned long do_bootefi_exec(void *efi, void
>> *fdt,
>>         ulong fdt_pages, fdt_size, fdt_start, fdt_end;
>>         const efi_guid_t fdt_guid = EFI_FDT_GUID;
>>         bootm_headers_t img = { 0 };
>> +       int ret;
>>         /*
>>          * Special case for efi payload not loaded from disk, such as
>> @@ -211,7 +225,9 @@ static unsigned long do_bootefi_exec(void *efi, void
>> *fdt,
>>                 "{ro,boot}(blob)0000000000000000");
>>         /* Initialize and populate EFI object list */
>> -       efi_init_obj_list();
>> +       ret = efi_init_obj_list();
>> +       if (ret)
>> +               return ret;
>>         /* Call our payload! */
>>         debug("%s:%d Jumping to 0x%lx\n", __func__, __LINE__,
>> (long)entry);
>> @@ -313,10 +329,12 @@ static int do_bootefi(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag,
>> int argc, char * const argv[])
>>                  */
>>                 efi_save_gd();
>>                 /* Initialize and populate EFI object list */
>> -               if (!efi_obj_list_initalized)
>> -                       efi_init_obj_list();
>> +               if (!efi_obj_list_initalized && efi_init_obj_list())
>> +                       return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
>> +
>>                 loaded_image_info.device_handle = bootefi_device_path;
>>                 loaded_image_info.file_path = bootefi_image_path;
>> +
>>                 return efi_selftest(&loaded_image_info, &systab);
>>         } else
>>   #endif
>>
>


Regards,
Simon