The SetBootOrderFromQemu() function implements a nested loop where

- the outer loop iterates over all OpenFirmware (OFW) device paths in the
  QEMU boot order, and translates each to a UEFI device path prefix;

- the inner loop matches the current (translated) prefix against all
  active UEFI boot options in turn;

- if the UEFI boot option is matched by the translated prefix, the UEFI
  boot option is appended to the "new" UEFI boot order, and marked as
  "has been appended".

This patch adds a micro-optimization where already matched / appended UEFI
boot options are skipped in the inner loop. This is not a functional
change. A functional change would be if, as a consequence of the patch,
some UEFI boot options would no longer be *doubly* matched.

For a UEFI boot option to be matched by two translated prefixes, one of
those prefixes would have to be a (proper, or equal) prefix of the other
prefix. The PCI and MMIO OFW translation routines output such only in the
following cases:

- When the original OFW device paths are prefixes of each other. This is
  not possible from the QEMU side. (Only leaf devices are bootable.)

- When the translation rules in the routines are incomplete, and don't
  look at the OFW device paths for sufficient length (i.e., at nodes where
  they would already differ, and the difference would show up in the
  translation output).

  This would be a shortcoming of the translation routines and should be
  fixed in TranslatePciOfwNodes() and TranslateMmioOfwNodes(), whenever
  identified.

Even in the second case, this patch would replace the double appending of
a single UEFI boot option (matched by two different OFW device paths) with
a correct, or cross-, matching of two different UEFI boot options. Again,
this is not expected, but arguably it would be more correct than duplicate
boot option appending, should it occur due to any (unexpected, unknown)
lack of detail in the translation routines.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
---
 OvmfPkg/Library/QemuBootOrderLib/QemuBootOrderLib.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/OvmfPkg/Library/QemuBootOrderLib/QemuBootOrderLib.c b/OvmfPkg/Library/QemuBootOrderLib/QemuBootOrderLib.c
index 7c1f375beb20..a9a62e9d4007 100644
--- a/OvmfPkg/Library/QemuBootOrderLib/QemuBootOrderLib.c
+++ b/OvmfPkg/Library/QemuBootOrderLib/QemuBootOrderLib.c
@@ -1849,31 +1849,32 @@ SetBootOrderFromQemu (
   //
   TranslatedSize = ARRAY_SIZE (Translated);
   Status = TranslateOfwPath (&FwCfgPtr, ExtraPciRoots, Translated,
              &TranslatedSize);
   while (Status == RETURN_SUCCESS ||
          Status == RETURN_UNSUPPORTED ||
          Status == RETURN_PROTOCOL_ERROR ||
          Status == RETURN_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL) {
     if (Status == RETURN_SUCCESS) {
       UINTN Idx;
 
       //
       // match translated OpenFirmware path against all active boot options
       //
       for (Idx = 0; Idx < ActiveCount; ++Idx) {
-        if (Match (
+        if (!ActiveOption[Idx].Appended &&
+            Match (
               Translated,
               TranslatedSize, // contains length, not size, in CHAR16's here
               ActiveOption[Idx].BootOption->FilePath
               )
             ) {
           //
           // match found, store ID and continue with next OpenFirmware path
           //
           Status = BootOrderAppend (&BootOrder, &ActiveOption[Idx]);
           if (Status != RETURN_SUCCESS) {
             goto ErrorFreeExtraPciRoots;
           }
           break;
         }
       } // scanned all active boot options
-- 
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On 27 November 2017 at 19:03, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
> The SetBootOrderFromQemu() function implements a nested loop where
>
> - the outer loop iterates over all OpenFirmware (OFW) device paths in the
>   QEMU boot order, and translates each to a UEFI device path prefix;
>
> - the inner loop matches the current (translated) prefix against all
>   active UEFI boot options in turn;
>
> - if the UEFI boot option is matched by the translated prefix, the UEFI
>   boot option is appended to the "new" UEFI boot order, and marked as
>   "has been appended".
>
> This patch adds a micro-optimization where already matched / appended UEFI
> boot options are skipped in the inner loop. This is not a functional
> change. A functional change would be if, as a consequence of the patch,
> some UEFI boot options would no longer be *doubly* matched.
>
> For a UEFI boot option to be matched by two translated prefixes, one of
> those prefixes would have to be a (proper, or equal) prefix of the other
> prefix. The PCI and MMIO OFW translation routines output such only in the
> following cases:
>
> - When the original OFW device paths are prefixes of each other. This is
>   not possible from the QEMU side. (Only leaf devices are bootable.)
>
> - When the translation rules in the routines are incomplete, and don't
>   look at the OFW device paths for sufficient length (i.e., at nodes where
>   they would already differ, and the difference would show up in the
>   translation output).
>
>   This would be a shortcoming of the translation routines and should be
>   fixed in TranslatePciOfwNodes() and TranslateMmioOfwNodes(), whenever
>   identified.
>
> Even in the second case, this patch would replace the double appending of
> a single UEFI boot option (matched by two different OFW device paths) with
> a correct, or cross-, matching of two different UEFI boot options. Again,
> this is not expected, but arguably it would be more correct than duplicate
> boot option appending, should it occur due to any (unexpected, unknown)
> lack of detail in the translation routines.
>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

> ---
>  OvmfPkg/Library/QemuBootOrderLib/QemuBootOrderLib.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/Library/QemuBootOrderLib/QemuBootOrderLib.c b/OvmfPkg/Library/QemuBootOrderLib/QemuBootOrderLib.c
> index 7c1f375beb20..a9a62e9d4007 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/Library/QemuBootOrderLib/QemuBootOrderLib.c
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/Library/QemuBootOrderLib/QemuBootOrderLib.c
> @@ -1849,31 +1849,32 @@ SetBootOrderFromQemu (
>    //
>    TranslatedSize = ARRAY_SIZE (Translated);
>    Status = TranslateOfwPath (&FwCfgPtr, ExtraPciRoots, Translated,
>               &TranslatedSize);
>    while (Status == RETURN_SUCCESS ||
>           Status == RETURN_UNSUPPORTED ||
>           Status == RETURN_PROTOCOL_ERROR ||
>           Status == RETURN_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL) {
>      if (Status == RETURN_SUCCESS) {
>        UINTN Idx;
>
>        //
>        // match translated OpenFirmware path against all active boot options
>        //
>        for (Idx = 0; Idx < ActiveCount; ++Idx) {
> -        if (Match (
> +        if (!ActiveOption[Idx].Appended &&
> +            Match (
>                Translated,
>                TranslatedSize, // contains length, not size, in CHAR16's here
>                ActiveOption[Idx].BootOption->FilePath
>                )
>              ) {
>            //
>            // match found, store ID and continue with next OpenFirmware path
>            //
>            Status = BootOrderAppend (&BootOrder, &ActiveOption[Idx]);
>            if (Status != RETURN_SUCCESS) {
>              goto ErrorFreeExtraPciRoots;
>            }
>            break;
>          }
>        } // scanned all active boot options
> --
> 2.14.1.3.gb7cf6e02401b
>
>
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