[PATCH] efi_loader: add missing EFI_CALL around tcg2 read_blocks calls
Heinrich Schuchardt
xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Sun Feb 15 08:28:17 CET 2026
On 2/11/26 13:43, Vincent Stehlé wrote:
> The read_blocks() function from the Block IO protocol is a UEFI function;
> make sure to call it from within U-Boot using the EFI_CALL() macro.
>
> To demonstrate the issue on an AArch64 machine, define the DEBUG macro in
> include/efi_loader.h and build u-boot with sandbox_defconfig, then download
> and uncompress the ACS-DT image [1], and finally execute the following
> command:
>
> $ ./u-boot -T -c " \
> host bind 0 systemready-dt_acs_live_image.wic; \
> setenv loadaddr 0x10000; \
> load host 0 \${loadaddr} EFI/BOOT/Shell.efi; \
> bootefi \${loadaddr} \${fdtcontroladdr}"
>
> The following assertion should fail:
>
> lib/efi_loader/efi_net.c:858: efi_network_timer_notify: Assertion `__efi_entry_check()' failed.
>
> This happens due to the following EFIAPI functions call chain:
>
> efi_start_image()
> efi_disk_read_blocks()
> (due to the missing EFI_CALL, entry_count == 2)
> efi_network_timer_notify()
>
> Link: https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-systemready/releases/download/v25.12_DT_3.1.1/systemready-dt_acs_live_image.wic.xz [1]
> Fixes: ce3dbc5d080d ("efi_loader: add UEFI GPT measurement")
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle at arm.com>
> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> Cc: Masahisa Kojima <kojima.masahisa at socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> ---
> lib/efi_loader/efi_tcg2.c | 13 ++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_tcg2.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_tcg2.c
> index bdf78897d47..1860dc50238 100644
> --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_tcg2.c
> +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_tcg2.c
> @@ -1213,8 +1213,10 @@ tcg2_measure_gpt_data(struct udevice *dev,
> goto out2;
> }
>
> - ret = block_io->read_blocks(block_io, block_io->media->media_id, 1,
> - block_io->media->block_size, gpt_h);
> + ret = EFI_CALL(block_io->read_blocks(block_io,
> + block_io->media->media_id, 1,
> + block_io->media->block_size,
> + gpt_h));
> if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS)
> goto out2;
>
> @@ -1227,9 +1229,10 @@ tcg2_measure_gpt_data(struct udevice *dev,
> goto out2;
> }
>
> - ret = block_io->read_blocks(block_io, block_io->media->media_id,
> - gpt_h->partition_entry_lba,
> - total_gpt_entry_size, entry);
> + ret = EFI_CALL(block_io->read_blocks(block_io,
> + block_io->media->media_id,
> + gpt_h->partition_entry_lba,
> + total_gpt_entry_size, entry));
> if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS)
> goto out2;
>
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