[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 40/92] efivarfs: Ensure VariableName is NUL-terminated
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Tue May 26 15:40:44 UTC 2015
3.19.8-ckt1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall at citrix.com>
commit c57dcb566d3d866a302a1da2e06344bec31d5bcd upstream.
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 at citrix.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at coreos.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
fs/efivarfs/super.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
index 6dad117..7b9efb9 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;
--
1.9.1
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