Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] efi/boot.c: Make file->ptr const void*

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 17.09.2020 17:40, Trammell Hudson wrote:
> Other than the config file parser that edits the image inplace,
> no other users of the file sections requires write access to the
> data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Trammell Hudson <hudson@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
albeit ...

> @@ -592,7 +593,7 @@ static bool __init read_file(EFI_FILE_HANDLE dir_handle, 
> CHAR16 *name,
>              efi_arch_handle_module(file, name, options);
>          }
>  
> -        ret = FileHandle->Read(FileHandle, &file->size, file->ptr);
> +        ret = FileHandle->Read(FileHandle, &file->size, file->str);

... I'm not particularly happy about this part of the change.
But yes - what do you do.

Jan