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| author | Ben Hutchings | 2013-06-16 21:27:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Matt Fleming | 2013-06-21 10:52:49 +0100 |
| commit | b8cb62f82103083a6e8fa5470bfe634a2c06514d (patch) | |
| tree | 62367f3923a90603697cac95557521eec5c161bb /arch | |
| parent | f8b8404337de4e2466e2e1139ea68b1f8295974f (diff) | |
x86/efi: Fix dummy variable buffer allocation
1. Check for allocation failure
2. Clear the buffer contents, as they may actually be written to flash
3. Don't leak the buffer
Compile-tested only.
[ Tested successfully on my buggy ASUS machine - Matt ]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c index 5ae2eb09419e..d2fbcedcf6ea 100644 --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c @@ -1069,7 +1069,10 @@ efi_status_t efi_query_variable_store(u32 attributes, unsigned long size) * that by attempting to use more space than is available. */ unsigned long dummy_size = remaining_size + 1024; - void *dummy = kmalloc(dummy_size, GFP_ATOMIC); + void *dummy = kzalloc(dummy_size, GFP_ATOMIC); + + if (!dummy) + return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES; status = efi.set_variable(efi_dummy_name, &EFI_DUMMY_GUID, EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE | @@ -1089,6 +1092,8 @@ efi_status_t efi_query_variable_store(u32 attributes, unsigned long size) 0, dummy); } + kfree(dummy); + /* * The runtime code may now have triggered a garbage collection * run, so check the variable info again |