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x86/xen/efi: Initialize only the EFI struct members used by Xen

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The current approach, which is the wholesale efi struct initialization from
a 'efi_xen' local template is not robust. Usually if new member is defined
then it is properly initialized in drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c, but not in
arch/x86/xen/efi.c.

The effect is that the Xen initialization clears any fields the generic code
might have set and the Xen code does not know about yet.

I saw this happen a few times, so let's initialize only the EFI struct members
used by Xen and maintain no local duplicate, to avoid such issues in the future.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498128697-12943-3-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
[ Clarified the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Daniel Kiper 2017-06-22 12:51:37 +02:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
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