Merge tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux

Pull pstore update from Tony Luck:
 "Fixes for pstore for 3.11 merge window"

* tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
  efivars: If pstore_register fails, free unneeded pstore buffer
  acpi: Eliminate console msg if pstore.backend excludes ERST
  pstore: Return unique error if backend registration excluded by kernel param
  pstore: Fail to unlink if a driver has not defined pstore_erase
  pstore/ram: remove the power of buffer size limitation
  pstore/ram: avoid atomic accesses for ioremapped regions
  efi, pstore: Cocci spatch "memdup.spatch"

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c
index 6d894bfd8b8..f7b3b39e94f 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c
@@ -1180,20 +1180,28 @@ static int __init erst_init(void)
 	if (!erst_erange.vaddr)
 		goto err_release_erange;
 
+	pr_info(ERST_PFX
+	"Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) support is initialized.\n");
+
 	buf = kmalloc(erst_erange.size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	spin_lock_init(&erst_info.buf_lock);
 	if (buf) {
 		erst_info.buf = buf + sizeof(struct cper_pstore_record);
 		erst_info.bufsize = erst_erange.size -
 				    sizeof(struct cper_pstore_record);
-		if (pstore_register(&erst_info)) {
-			pr_info(ERST_PFX "Could not register with persistent store\n");
+		rc = pstore_register(&erst_info);
+		if (rc) {
+			if (rc != -EPERM)
+				pr_info(ERST_PFX
+				"Could not register with persistent store\n");
+			erst_info.buf = NULL;
+			erst_info.bufsize = 0;
 			kfree(buf);
 		}
-	}
-
-	pr_info(ERST_PFX
-	"Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) support is initialized.\n");
+	} else
+		pr_err(ERST_PFX
+		"Failed to allocate %lld bytes for persistent store error log\n",
+		erst_erange.size);
 
 	return 0;
 
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
index 202d2c85ba2..91864ad200f 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
@@ -79,10 +79,9 @@ static int efi_pstore_read_func(struct efivar_entry *entry, void *data)
 			   &entry->var.DataSize, entry->var.Data);
 	size = entry->var.DataSize;
 
-	*cb_data->buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	*cb_data->buf = kmemdup(entry->var.Data, size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (*cb_data->buf == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	memcpy(*cb_data->buf, entry->var.Data, size);
 	return size;
 }
 
@@ -236,7 +235,11 @@ static __init int efivars_pstore_init(void)
 	efi_pstore_info.bufsize = 1024;
 	spin_lock_init(&efi_pstore_info.buf_lock);
 
-	pstore_register(&efi_pstore_info);
+	if (pstore_register(&efi_pstore_info)) {
+		kfree(efi_pstore_info.buf);
+		efi_pstore_info.buf = NULL;
+		efi_pstore_info.bufsize = 0;
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }