From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-stable] efi: libstub: drop pointless get_memory_map() call
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 08:54:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y0+fNpprkj4kr5tk@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221018182545.143757-1-ardb@kernel.org>
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 08:25:45PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> commit d80ca810f096ff66f451e7a3ed2f0cd9ef1ff519 upstream
>
> Currently, the non-x86 stub code calls get_memory_map() redundantly,
> given that the data it returns is never used anywhere. So drop the call.
>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.14+
> Fixes: 24d7c494ce46 ("efi/arm-stub: Round up FDT allocation to mapping size")
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c | 8 --------
> 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
>
> This is a backport for v5.4 and older, where the patch in question did
> not apply cleanly on the first attempt. Please apply.
Thanks, now queued up.
greg k-h
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2022-10-18 18:25 [PATCH for-stable] efi: libstub: drop pointless get_memory_map() call Ard Biesheuvel
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