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From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/efi: initialize status to ensure garbage is not returned on small size
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:50:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160801115041.GD3636@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ada10a97-f3d3-91af-51b8-6d2f973c95a1@canonical.com>

On Wed, 27 Jul, at 03:50:16PM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> 
> I'd rather put extra guarding in rather than getting some potential
> garbage return from the stack, but I am playing it rather conservatively
> here.

I think that's sensible, I just wanted to confirm your rationale.

Thanks, applied.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-01 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-20 10:11 [PATCH] x86/efi: initialize status to ensure garbage is not returned on small size Colin King
2016-07-27 14:38 ` Matt Fleming
2016-07-27 14:50   ` Colin Ian King
2016-08-01 11:50     ` Matt Fleming [this message]

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