On Sun, 30 Aug 2026 at 11:44, Heinrich Schuchardt
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The return value of platform_get_rng_device() is efi_status_t.
> It does not fit into an integer variable ret. Use variable status.
>
> The RNG device was available when registering the protocol. When it is no
> longer available in GetRng(), this is a device error and not an unsupported
> algorithm. Use EFI_DEVICE_ERROR returned by platform_get_rng_device() as
> return value of GetRng().
>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 532068 Overflowed constant
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
> ---
> v2:
>         keep the EFI_PRINT() debug message
> ---

Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>
>  lib/efi_loader/efi_rng.c | 7 +++----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_rng.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_rng.c
> index e920eec9d7b..3a831e2232b 100644
> --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_rng.c
> +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_rng.c
> @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static efi_status_t EFIAPI getrng(struct efi_rng_protocol 
> *this,
>                                   uint8_t *rng_value)
>  {
>         int ret;
> -       efi_status_t status = EFI_SUCCESS;
> +       efi_status_t status;
>         struct udevice *dev;
>         const efi_guid_t rng_raw_guid = EFI_RNG_ALGORITHM_RAW;
>
> @@ -123,10 +123,9 @@ static efi_status_t EFIAPI getrng(struct 
> efi_rng_protocol *this,
>                 }
>         }
>
> -       ret = platform_get_rng_device(&dev);
> -       if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS) {
> +       status = platform_get_rng_device(&dev);
> +       if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
>                 EFI_PRINT("Rng device not found\n");
> -               status = EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
>                 goto back;
>         }
>
> --
> 2.53.0
>

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