> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:ler...@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 8:26 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Zhang, Shenglei
> Cc: Bi, Dandan; Gao, Liming; Wu, Hao A; Dong, Eric
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] MdeModulePkg/DxeIplPeim: Relocate
> the operation of PageMapLevel5Entry++
> 
> On 08/12/19 08:24, Zhang, Shenglei wrote:
> > PageMapLevel5Entry may be uninitialized in original code, which means
> > uninitialized pointer will be modified at some circumstance.
> > So relocate the operation of PageMapLevel5Entry++ in order to make sure
> > the pointer could be modified only when it is uninitialized.
> >
> > Cc: Dandan Bi <dandan...@intel.com>
> > Cc: Liming Gao <liming....@intel.com>
> > Cc: Hao A Wu <hao.a...@intel.com>
> > Cc: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Eric Dong <eric.d...@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Shenglei Zhang <shenglei.zh...@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/X64/VirtualMemory.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/X64/VirtualMemory.c
> b/MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/X64/VirtualMemory.c
> > index b40b7e0c9813..2389f3eb485b 100644
> > --- a/MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/X64/VirtualMemory.c
> > +++ b/MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/X64/VirtualMemory.c
> > @@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ CreateIdentityMappingPageTables (
> >
> >    for ( IndexOfPml5Entries = 0
> >        ; IndexOfPml5Entries < NumberOfPml5EntriesNeeded
> > -      ; IndexOfPml5Entries++, PageMapLevel5Entry++) {
> > +      ; IndexOfPml5Entries++) {
> >      //
> >      // Each PML5 entry points to a page of PML4 entires.
> >      // So lets allocate space for them and fill them in in the
> IndexOfPml4Entries loop.
> > @@ -780,6 +780,7 @@ CreateIdentityMappingPageTables (
> >        PageMapLevel5Entry->Uint64 = (UINT64) (UINTN) PageMapLevel4Entry
> | AddressEncMask;
> >        PageMapLevel5Entry->Bits.ReadWrite = 1;
> >        PageMapLevel5Entry->Bits.Present   = 1;
> > +      PageMapLevel5Entry++;
> >      }
> >
> >      for ( IndexOfPml4Entries = 0
> >
> 
> I'm commenting for a second time here because the underlying bug seems
> to break the building of OVMF:
> 
> [edk2-devel] ovmf build fail with gcc 4.8.5
> 
> When you commit the patch, please add the following to the commit
> message:
> 
> Fixes: b3527dedc3951f061c5a73cb4fb2b0f95f47e08b


Hello Laszlo,

Thanks for the information.
I will update the commit message when I push this patch.

Best Regards,
Hao Wu


> 
> (Because the invalid access was apparently introduced in that commit. I
> did regression-test b3527dedc395, but I didn't get the warning.)
> 
> Thanks
> Laszlo

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