[edk2-devel] [Patch 1/1] OvmfPkg/LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand: Cast UNIT64 to UNITN in assignment

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 03/10/20 09:44, Bob Feng wrote:
> REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2580
> 
> Ovmf build failed on Windows with VS2017 tool chain.
> The error message like:
> 
> OvmfPkg\LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand\LinuxInitr
>  dDynamicShellCommand.c(199): error C2220: warning treated as error -
>  no 'object' file generated
> OvmfPkg\LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand\LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand.c(199):
> warning C4244: '=': conversion from 'UINT64' to 'UINTN',
> possible loss of data
> 
> This patch is to cast UINT64 type to UINTN type
> when doing the variable assignment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bob Feng <bob.c.feng at intel.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
> ---
>  .../LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand.c                            | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand/LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand.c b/OvmfPkg/LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand/LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand.c
> index 021b072826a9..07baa0e8d100 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand/LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand.c
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand/LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand.c
> @@ -194,11 +194,11 @@ CacheInitrdFile (
>                      &gEfiLoadFile2ProtocolGuid,   &mInitrdLoadFile2,
>                      NULL);
>      ASSERT_EFI_ERROR (Status);
>    }
>  
> -  mInitrdFileSize = FileSize;
> +  mInitrdFileSize = (UINTN)FileSize;
>    return EFI_SUCCESS;
>  
>  FreeMemory:
>    gBS->FreePages (mInitrdFileAddress, EFI_SIZE_TO_PAGES ((UINTN)FileSize));
>    return Status;
> 

Yes, this patch is safe; the function catches (FileSize > MAX_UINTN)
gracefully, near the top.

Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>

Thank you very much for the patch!
Laszlo


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