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-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efivars.c60
1 files changed, 60 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index 1955f5f87c6..b07cb377bfa 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -1669,6 +1669,28 @@ static ssize_t efivar_delete(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
return count;
}
+static bool variable_is_present(efi_char16_t *variable_name, efi_guid_t *vendor)
+{
+ struct efivar_entry *entry, *n;
+ struct efivars *efivars = &__efivars;
+ unsigned long strsize1, strsize2;
+ bool found = false;
+
+ strsize1 = utf16_strsize(variable_name, 1024);
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, n, &efivars->list, list) {
+ strsize2 = utf16_strsize(entry->var.VariableName, 1024);
+ if (strsize1 == strsize2 &&
+ !memcmp(variable_name, &(entry->var.VariableName),
+ strsize2) &&
+ !efi_guidcmp(entry->var.VendorGuid,
+ *vendor)) {
+ found = true;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ return found;
+}
+
/*
* Returns the size of variable_name, in bytes, including the
* terminating NULL character, or variable_name_size if no NULL
@@ -1889,6 +1911,28 @@ void unregister_efivars(struct efivars *efivars)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_efivars);
+/*
+ * Print a warning when duplicate EFI variables are encountered and
+ * disable the sysfs workqueue since the firmware is buggy.
+ */
+static void dup_variable_bug(efi_char16_t *s16, efi_guid_t *vendor_guid,
+ unsigned long len16)
+{
+ size_t i, len8 = len16 / sizeof(efi_char16_t);
+ char *s8;
+
+ s8 = kzalloc(len8, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!s8)
+ return;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < len8; i++)
+ s8[i] = s16[i];
+
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "efivars: duplicate variable: %s-%pUl\n",
+ s8, vendor_guid);
+ kfree(s8);
+}
+
int register_efivars(struct efivars *efivars,
const struct efivar_operations *ops,
struct kobject *parent_kobj)
@@ -1939,6 +1983,22 @@ int register_efivars(struct efivars *efivars,
case EFI_SUCCESS:
variable_name_size = var_name_strnsize(variable_name,
variable_name_size);
+
+ /*
+ * Some firmware implementations return the
+ * same variable name on multiple calls to
+ * get_next_variable(). Terminate the loop
+ * immediately as there is no guarantee that
+ * we'll ever see a different variable name,
+ * and may end up looping here forever.
+ */
+ if (variable_is_present(variable_name, &vendor_guid)) {
+ dup_variable_bug(variable_name, &vendor_guid,
+ variable_name_size);
+ status = EFI_NOT_FOUND;
+ break;
+ }
+
efivar_create_sysfs_entry(efivars,
variable_name_size,
variable_name,