The change Looks good to me. Also, Good to see you adding the comment about why we need to cache BootNext before all the platform hook function calls. :)
Reviewed-by: Sunny Wang <sunnyw...@hpe.com> Regards, Sunny Wang -----Original Message----- From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Ruiyu Ni Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 1:50 PM To: edk2-devel@lists.01.org Cc: Eric Dong <eric.d...@intel.com>; Star Zeng <star.z...@intel.com> Subject: [edk2] [PATCH] MdeModulePkg/BdsDxe: Don't delete "BootNext" until booting it Current implementation deletes the "BootNext" before calling any PlatformBootManagerLib APIs, but if system resets in PlatformBootManagerLib APIs, "BootNext" is not consumed but lost. The patch defers the deletion of "BootNext" to before booting it. Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0 Signed-off-by: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu...@intel.com> Cc: Eric Dong <eric.d...@intel.com> Cc: Star Zeng <star.z...@intel.com> --- MdeModulePkg/Universal/BdsDxe/BdsEntry.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/MdeModulePkg/Universal/BdsDxe/BdsEntry.c b/MdeModulePkg/Universal/BdsDxe/BdsEntry.c index ac5f9088dd..a6fe617b56 100644 --- a/MdeModulePkg/Universal/BdsDxe/BdsEntry.c +++ b/MdeModulePkg/Universal/BdsDxe/BdsEntry.c @@ -808,7 +808,8 @@ BdsEntry ( ASSERT_EFI_ERROR (Status); // - // Cache and remove the "BootNext" NV variable. + // Cache the "BootNext" NV variable before calling any + PlatformBootManagerLib APIs // This could avoid the "BootNext" set by PlatformBootManagerLib be consumed in this boot. // GetEfiGlobalVariable2 (EFI_BOOT_NEXT_VARIABLE_NAME, (VOID **) &BootNext, &DataSize); if (DataSize != sizeof (UINT16)) { @@ -817,17 +818,6 @@ BdsEntry ( } BootNext = NULL; } - Status = gRT->SetVariable ( - EFI_BOOT_NEXT_VARIABLE_NAME, - &gEfiGlobalVariableGuid, - 0, - 0, - NULL - ); - // - // Deleting NV variable shouldn't fail unless it doesn't exist. - // - ASSERT (Status == EFI_SUCCESS || Status == EFI_NOT_FOUND); // // Initialize the platform language variables @@ -1052,10 +1042,25 @@ BdsEntry ( EfiBootManagerHotkeyBoot (); - // - // Boot to "BootNext" - // if (BootNext != NULL) { + // + // Delete "BootNext" NV variable before transferring control to it to prevent loops. + // + Status = gRT->SetVariable ( + EFI_BOOT_NEXT_VARIABLE_NAME, + &gEfiGlobalVariableGuid, + 0, + 0, + NULL + ); + // + // Deleting NV variable shouldn't fail unless it doesn't exist. + // + ASSERT (Status == EFI_SUCCESS || Status == EFI_NOT_FOUND); + + // + // Boot to "BootNext" + // UnicodeSPrint (BootNextVariableName, sizeof (BootNextVariableName), L"Boot%04x", *BootNext); Status = EfiBootManagerVariableToLoadOption (BootNextVariableName, &LoadOption); if (!EFI_ERROR (Status)) { -- 2.12.2.windows.2 _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
