[U-Boot] efi_loader: workaround for grub lsefi bug

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Tue Jul 25 08:28:02 UTC 2017



On 24.07.17 21:20, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
>> On 07/20/2017 01:59 PM, Rob Clark wrote:
>>> Patch has also been sent to fix grub to not ignore the error returned
>>> and treat protocol_buffer_count as valid.  But that that might take a
>>> while to trickle into distro's, so this workaround might be useful.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>   lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c | 1 +
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c
>>> index 27e51a253f..a45de39919 100644
>>> --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c
>>> +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c
>>> @@ -637,6 +637,7 @@ static efi_status_t EFIAPI efi_protocols_per_handle(void *handle,
>>>   {
>>>        EFI_ENTRY("%p, %p, %p", handle, protocol_buffer,
>>>                  protocol_buffer_count);
>>> +     *protocol_buffer_count = 0;
>>>        return EFI_EXIT(EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES);
>>>   }
>>>
>>>
>>
>> NAK
>>
>> We already have this patch waiting to correctly implement
>> ProtocolsPerHandle:
>>
>> efi_loader: implement ProtocolsPerHandle
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/787995/
>>
>> @Rob: Could you, please, test if this patch solves your problem.
>>
> 
>  From a quick look, it looks like it probably should.  I mostly sent

Yes, lsefi works with your patch.

> this patch so people would have a way to lsefi in grub to see what my
> device-path patches where doing.

I simply applied both now :).


Alex


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