* [PATCH] x86/purgatory: Return bool from verify_sha256_digest()
@ 2026-07-22 16:22 Thorsten Blum
2026-07-23 7:58 ` Ingo Molnar
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Thorsten Blum @ 2026-07-22 16:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, x86,
H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Thorsten Blum, linux-kernel
Change the function's return type from int to bool and return the result
of memcmp() directly to simplify the code. While at it, cast ->start to
const u8 * to better match the expected type.
Also inline the verify_sha256_digest() check and remove the redundant
local ret variable in purgatory().
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c | 14 ++++----------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c b/arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c
index 655139dd0532..3ea8eb6af11f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ u8 purgatory_sha256_digest[SHA256_DIGEST_SIZE] __section(".kexec-purgatory");
struct kexec_sha_region purgatory_sha_regions[KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX] __section(".kexec-purgatory");
-static int verify_sha256_digest(void)
+static bool verify_sha256_digest(void)
{
struct kexec_sha_region *ptr, *end;
u8 digest[SHA256_DIGEST_SIZE];
@@ -31,22 +31,16 @@ static int verify_sha256_digest(void)
end = purgatory_sha_regions + ARRAY_SIZE(purgatory_sha_regions);
for (ptr = purgatory_sha_regions; ptr < end; ptr++)
- sha256_update(&sctx, (uint8_t *)(ptr->start), ptr->len);
+ sha256_update(&sctx, (const u8 *)(ptr->start), ptr->len);
sha256_final(&sctx, digest);
- if (memcmp(digest, purgatory_sha256_digest, sizeof(digest)))
- return 1;
-
- return 0;
+ return memcmp(digest, purgatory_sha256_digest, sizeof(digest)) == 0;
}
void purgatory(void)
{
- int ret;
-
- ret = verify_sha256_digest();
- if (ret) {
+ if (!verify_sha256_digest()) {
/* loop forever */
for (;;)
;
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2026-07-22 16:22 [PATCH] x86/purgatory: Return bool from verify_sha256_digest() Thorsten Blum
@ 2026-07-23 7:58 ` Ingo Molnar
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ingo Molnar @ 2026-07-23 7:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thorsten Blum
Cc: Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, x86,
H. Peter Anvin, linux-kernel
* Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> wrote:
> - if (memcmp(digest, purgatory_sha256_digest, sizeof(digest)))
> - return 1;
> -
> - return 0;
> + return memcmp(digest, purgatory_sha256_digest, sizeof(digest)) == 0;
Could you please write this as !memcmp()? The == 0 variant is
quite a bad pattern for such a long line, as it's far easier
to miss during review than a ! unary operator...
Just like here:
> + if (!verify_sha256_digest()) {
Thanks,
Ingo
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