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authorRoss Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>2015-04-02 08:39:00 +0100
committerMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2015-04-17 15:41:13 +0100
commitc57dcb566d3d866a302a1da2e06344bec31d5bcd (patch)
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efivarfs: Ensure VariableName is NUL-terminated
Some buggy firmware implementations update VariableNameSize on success such that it does not include the final NUL character which results in garbage in the efivarfs name entries. Use kzalloc on the efivar_entry (as is done in efivars.c) to ensure that the name is always NUL-terminated. The buggy firmware is: BIOS Information Vendor: Intel Corp. Version: S1200RP.86B.02.02.0005.102320140911 Release Date: 10/23/2014 BIOS Revision: 4.6 System Information Manufacturer: Intel Corporation Product Name: S1200RP_SE Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com> Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com> Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/efivarfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/efivarfs/super.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
index ddbce42548c9..acf9a67f6770 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static int efivarfs_callback(efi_char16_t *name16, efi_guid_t vendor,
int len, i;
int err = -ENOMEM;
- entry = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
+ entry = kzalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!entry)
return err;