[PATCH] efi_loader: move efi_var_seed.o to objtree

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

Am 19. Juni 2026 17:58:57 MESZ schrieb Jon Mason <jon.mason at arm.com>:
>With commit bd3f9ee679b4d1456d0d3c261ab76788950e6096
>(kbuild: Bump the build system to 6.1), there is an issue when trying to
>build out of tree, where efi_var_seed.S wants ubootefi.var to be in the
>object tree, but lib/efi_loader/efi_var_seed.o wants ubootefi.var to be
>in the source tree.

Ubootefi.var is an optional file with the EFI security database. Why would you ever put it into the build directory?

Heinrich

>
>If we change efi_var_seed.o to look in the objtree, then it should work
>in both local and out-of-tree.  However, it would require anything
>previously working to put ubootefi.vars to the objtree, but it's broken
>now anyway.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason at arm.com>
>---
> lib/efi_loader/Makefile | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/Makefile b/lib/efi_loader/Makefile
>index f490081f6542..9c836f6ee237 100644
>--- a/lib/efi_loader/Makefile
>+++ b/lib/efi_loader/Makefile
>@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_ECPT) += efi_conformance.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_DEBUG_SUPPORT) += efi_debug_support.o
> 
> EFI_VAR_SEED_FILE := $(subst $\",,$(CONFIG_EFI_VAR_SEED_FILE))
>-$(obj)/efi_var_seed.o: $(srctree)/$(EFI_VAR_SEED_FILE)
>+$(obj)/efi_var_seed.o: $(objtree)/$(EFI_VAR_SEED_FILE)
> 
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_EFI_CAPSULE_AUTHENTICATE),y)
> capsule_crt_path=($(subst $(quote),,$(CONFIG_EFI_CAPSULE_CRT_FILE)))