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authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2013-06-16 21:27:12 +0100
committerMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2013-06-21 10:52:49 +0100
commitb8cb62f82103083a6e8fa5470bfe634a2c06514d (patch)
tree62367f3923a90603697cac95557521eec5c161bb /arch
parentf8b8404337de4e2466e2e1139ea68b1f8295974f (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.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 5ae2eb09419..d2fbcedcf6e 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