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authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2012-11-09 21:02:56 +0000
committerMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2012-11-13 12:33:21 +0000
commit89d16665d388837b30972081d97b814be26d68a2 (patch)
tree0fd95e1e9d6886c27e7d9b7eed7464cd2e22988d /include/linux
parentcfcf2f11708f934d2bd294f973c2fcb0cc54f293 (diff)
efivarfs: Use query_variable_info() to limit kmalloc()
We don't want someone who can write EFI variables to be able to allocate arbitrarily large amounts of memory, so cap it to something sensible like the amount of free space for EFI variables. Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/efi.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index 5e2308d9c6be..f80079cd84f4 100644
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -646,6 +646,7 @@ struct efivar_operations {
efi_get_variable_t *get_variable;
efi_get_next_variable_t *get_next_variable;
efi_set_variable_t *set_variable;
+ efi_query_variable_info_t *query_variable_info;
};
struct efivars {