Re: [PATCH 4/6] efi: Get the secure boot status

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Nov 22 2016 - 19:02:36 EST


Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 02:47:27PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> > Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > The "out_efi_err" portion differs from the previous version of this
> > > patch. Setting a __u8 to a negative value, is this really what you
> > > want?
> >
> > Eh? efi_get_secureboot() returns an int as before. The out_efi_err:
> > portions are exactly the same:
>
> By "the previous version of this patch" I was referring to your
> submission of Nov 16, not the existing code in the kernel.
> Your patch didn't contain the out_efi_err portion.
>
> You're assigning a negative value to boot_params->secure_boot
> (which is declared __u8).

Ah, yes. Sorry, you confused me by specifying a comparison against the last
version.

David