Re: [PATCH -next] efi/libstub/x86: fix an EFI server boot failure

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Wed Jan 22 2020 - 14:17:59 EST


On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 20:15, Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> x86_64 EFI systems are unable to boot due to a typo in the recent commit.
>
> EFI config tables not found.
> -- System halted
>
> Fixes: 796eb8d26a57 ("efi/libstub/x86: Use const attribute for efi_is_64bit()")
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
> index 82e26d0ff075..287393d725f0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ __attribute_const__ bool efi_is_64bit(void)
> {
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI_MIXED))
> return efi_is64;
> - return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X64_64);
> + return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64);
> }
>
> static efi_status_t

Apologies for the breakage - your fix is obviously correct. But I did
test this code, so I am curious why I didn't see this problem. Are you
booting via GRUB or from the UEFI shell? Can you share your .config
please?