Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch edk2-stable202208 1/2] BaseTools/Source/C/GenSec: Preserve prior behavior when no GUID provided

["Bob Feng" <bob.c.feng@intel.com>]

Reviewed-by: Bob Feng <bob.c.feng@intel.com>

-----Original Message-----
From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Michael D Kinney
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 9:49 AM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io
Cc: Konstantin Aladyshev <aladyshev22@gmail.com>; Feng, Bob C <bob.c.feng@intel.com>; Gao, Liming <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>; Chen, Christine <yuwei.chen@intel.com>
Subject: [edk2-devel] [Patch edk2-stable202208 1/2] BaseTools/Source/C/GenSec: Preserve prior behavior when no GUID provided

REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4022

If no GUID value is provided with EFI_SECTION_FREEFORM_SUBTYPE_GUID then preserve the prior behavior until all downstream platforms are updated to pass in a GUID value.

Cc: Konstantin Aladyshev <aladyshev22@gmail.com>
Cc: Bob Feng <bob.c.feng@intel.com>
Cc: Liming Gao <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>
Cc: Yuwei Chen <yuwei.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
---
 BaseTools/Source/C/GenSec/GenSec.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/BaseTools/Source/C/GenSec/GenSec.c b/BaseTools/Source/C/GenSec/GenSec.c
index d86cc197cc26..191a49d99228 100644
--- a/BaseTools/Source/C/GenSec/GenSec.c
+++ b/BaseTools/Source/C/GenSec/GenSec.c
@@ -1752,8 +1752,7 @@ Routine Description:
   // Check whether there is GUID for the SubtypeGuid section
   //
   if ((SectType == EFI_SECTION_FREEFORM_SUBTYPE_GUID) && (CompareGuid (&VendorGuid, &mZeroGuid) == 0)) {
-    Error (NULL, 0, 1001, "Missing options", "GUID");
-    goto Finish;
+    fprintf (stdout, "Warning: input guid value is required for section 
+ type %s\n", SectionName);
   }
 
   //
@@ -1825,13 +1824,25 @@ Routine Description:
     break;
 
   case EFI_SECTION_FREEFORM_SUBTYPE_GUID:
-    Status = GenSectionSubtypeGuidSection (
-              InputFileName,
-              InputFileAlign,
-              InputFileNum,
-              &VendorGuid,
-              &OutFileBuffer
-              );
+    if (CompareGuid (&VendorGuid, &mZeroGuid) == 0) {
+      //
+      // Preserve existing behavior when no GUID value is provided
+      //
+      Status = GenSectionCommonLeafSection (
+                InputFileName,
+                InputFileNum,
+                SectType,
+                &OutFileBuffer
+                );
+    } else {
+      Status = GenSectionSubtypeGuidSection (
+                InputFileName,
+                InputFileAlign,
+                InputFileNum,
+                &VendorGuid,
+                &OutFileBuffer
+                );
+    }
     break;
 
   case EFI_SECTION_VERSION:
--
2.37.1.windows.1