* [tip:x86/urgent] efivarfs: Ensure VariableName is NUL-terminated
@ 2015-05-06 7:33 tip-bot for Ross Lagerwall
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From: tip-bot for Ross Lagerwall @ 2015-05-06 7:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Cc: stable, hpa, tglx, matt.fleming, mingo, jk, ross.lagerwall, mjg59
Commit-ID: c57dcb566d3d866a302a1da2e06344bec31d5bcd
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c57dcb566d3d866a302a1da2e06344bec31d5bcd
Author: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 08:39:00 +0100
Committer: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
CommitDate: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:41:13 +0100
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>
---
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 ddbce42..acf9a67 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;
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