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| author | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2013-06-16 21:27:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2013-06-29 04:06:32 +0100 |
| commit | b35b16d2be61943373f16ceb6184a66da84ab229 (patch) | |
| tree | 7941fa3adf46cadcf25c946ec75015f0f612381f /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 134c3faa909c12ae1b9c3a37a5e733b1f6c3dfab (diff) | |
x86/efi: Fix dummy variable buffer allocation
commit b8cb62f82103083a6e8fa5470bfe634a2c06514d upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -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 8ea99d89446..f9537e3044f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c @@ -875,7 +875,10 @@ 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 | @@ -895,6 +898,8 @@ 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 |