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authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2013-06-16 21:27:12 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-06-27 10:38:44 -0700
commit5440f5d68b518339a9ee2fdc838c8caef19e36de (patch)
tree85e4ea7949fe546bbd0b855cf66c899d7262effa /arch/x86
parent04778bad36603c0ced7f1540671de81e9b41ef0c (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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index 90f3a5203c3..714e825344c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -1059,7 +1059,10 @@ 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 |
@@ -1079,6 +1082,8 @@ 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