Re: [PATCH RESEND] efivarfs: Ensure VariableName is NUL-terminated

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 08:39 +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
ACKed-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxx>

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