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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2013-06-21 03:01:21 -0700 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2013-06-21 03:01:21 -0700 |
| commit | df91c3513f9a1da5388a5d5972fe4f777fe0d516 (patch) | |
| tree | 39c44a690d42d5a3cc521d8fd34c3eb6916452cf /arch | |
| parent | b52e0a7c4e4100f8683af508664e60e1603070f9 (diff) | |
| parent | b8cb62f82103083a6e8fa5470bfe634a2c06514d (diff) | |
Merge tag 'efi-urgent' into x86/urgent
* Don't leak random kernel memory to EFI variable NVRAM when attempting
to initiate garbage collection. Also, free the kernel memory when
we're done with it instead of leaking - Ben Hutchings
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c index 5ae2eb09419e..d2fbcedcf6ea 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 |