RE: [PATCH v3] efi: take size of partition entry from GPT header

[David Laight]

From: Davidlohr Bueso
> Sent: 12 September 2018 19:55
> 
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, Eugene Korenevsky wrote:
> > /**
> >  * efi_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)
> >  * @state: disk parsed partitions
> >@@ -704,32 +710,36 @@ int efi_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)
> >
> > 	pr_debug("GUID Partition Table is valid!  Yea!\n");
> >
> >-	for (i = 0; i < le32_to_cpu(gpt->num_partition_entries) && i < state->limit-1; i++) {
> >+	for (i = 0;
> >+	     i < le32_to_cpu(gpt->num_partition_entries) && i < state->limit-1;
> >+	     i++) {
> 
> Please rearrange this like:
> 
>        for (i = 0; i < le32_to_cpu(gpt->num_partition_entries) &&
>        	      	      i < state->limit-1; i++)

Better still cache le32_to_cpu(gpt->num_partition_entries) to a local
so that it only has to be calculated once (even if it gets spilled
to the stack).
It can be bounded by state->limit-1 at the same time.

	David

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