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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 15:39:35 +0000
From: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, will.deacon@....com,
	catalin.marinas@....com, mark.rutland@....com,
	leif.lindholm@...aro.org, keescook@...omium.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stuart.yoder@...escale.com,
	bhupesh.sharma@...escale.com, arnd@...db.de, marc.zyngier@....com,
	christoffer.dall@...aro.org, labbott@...oraproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 20/22] efi: stub: add implementation of
 efi_random_alloc()

On Tue, 26 Jan, at 06:10:47PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> +
> +/*
> + * The UEFI memory descriptors have a virtual address field that is only used
> + * when installing the virtual mapping using SetVirtualAddressMap(). Since it
> + * is unused here, we can reuse it to keep track of each descriptor's slot
> + * count.
> + */
> +#define MD_NUM_SLOTS(md)	((md)->virt_addr)
> +
> +efi_status_t efi_random_alloc(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
> +			      unsigned long size,
> +			      unsigned long align,
> +			      unsigned long *addr,
> +			      unsigned long random_seed)
> +{
> +	unsigned long map_size, desc_size, total_slots = 0, target_slot;
> +	efi_status_t status = EFI_NOT_FOUND;
> +	efi_memory_desc_t *memory_map;
> +	int map_offset;

The assignment of 'status' is not needed since it gets assigned a new
value immediately.

Otherwise looks good.

Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>

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