Re: [PATCH] efi/libstub: refactor cmd_stubcopy

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue Mar 26 2019 - 02:06:39 EST


Hi Ard,



On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 11:07 AM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 12:38 AM Ard Biesheuvel
> <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 06:49, Masahiro Yamada
> > <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 4:26 PM Ard Biesheuvel
> > > <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 at 04:45, Masahiro Yamada
> > > > <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > It took me a while to understand what is going on in the nested
> > > > > if-blocks.
> > > > >
> > > > > Simplify it by removing unneeded code.
> > > > >
> > > > > - if_changed automatically adds 'set -e', so any failure in the
> > > > > series of commands makes it immediately fail as a whole.
> > > > > So, the outer if block is entirely redundant.
> > > > >
> > > > > - Since commit 9c2af1c7377a ("kbuild: add .DELETE_ON_ERROR special
> > > > > target"), GNU Make automatically deletes the target on any failure
> > > > > in its recipe. The explicit 'rm -f $@' is redundant.
> > > > >
> > > > > - surrounding commands with ( ) will spawn a subshell to execute them
> > > > > in it, but it is rarely useful to do so.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Assuming that it still works as expected:
> > > >
> > > > Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > You can test this by adding a statically initialized global function
> > > > pointer to any of the libstub source files that get built for ARM.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> > > I tried that, and it failed as expected.
> > >
> >
> > Great, thanks for double checking.
> >
> > Are you taking this directly, or do you want me to take it via the EFI
> > tree? Either is fine with me
> >
> >
>
> Could you apply it to your EFI tree?
> Thanks.



Will you pick it up?



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada