Re: [PATCH 1/3] efinet: handle get_status() properly

[Josef Bacik]

On 08/05/2015 04:32 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> This patch improperly assumes that GRUB is the only thing in EFI that
> transmits. Your patch surely fixed your machine but likely breaks some
> other machines. Could you instead make an explicit check for (void *)1
> and add a comment on which machine it's necessary?

Yeah this is kind of a crap trade-off I know.  The problem is this is 
just on one box I'm testing with, we've got _a metric shit ton_ of 
boxes, if one of them returns 0x2 suddenly it can't be provisioned.  I 
realize this is racey with other things on UEFI doing stuff, but I don't 
have a better answer.  Maybe a range check for obviously bogus 
addresses?  Or maybe once we get a non-NULL from GetStatus() we call it 
again until we get a NULL from GetStatus()?  Thanks,

Josef