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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86, efi: initial the local variable of DataSize to zero
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於 六,2013-04-27 於 01:19 +0800,Lee, Chun-Yi 提到:
> That will be better initial the value of DataSize to zero for the input of
> GetVariable(), otherwise we will feed a random value. The debug log of input
> DataSize like this:
>
> ...
> [ 195.915612] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
> [ 195.915819] efi: size: 18446744071581821342
> [ 195.915969] efi: size': 18446744071581821342
> [ 195.916324] efi: size: 18446612150714306560
> [ 195.916632] efi: size': 18446612150714306560
> [ 195.917159] efi: size: 18446612150714306560
> [ 195.917453] efi: size': 18446612150714306560
> ...

After applied patch, the log of size like this:

[ 82.442042] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
[ 82.442202] efi: size: 0
[ 82.442360] efi: size': 1039
[ 82.443828] efi: size: 0
[ 82.444127] efi: size': 2616
[ 82.447057] efi: size: 0
[ 82.447356] efi: size': 5832
[ 82.452669] efi: size: 0
[ 82.453128] efi: size': 1
[ 82.454339] efi: size: 0
[ 82.454843] efi: size': 1
[ 82.456173] efi: size: 0
[ 82.456764] efi: size': 8
[ 82.458194] efi: size: 0
[ 82.458905] efi: size': 4

The size' is the return value of Acer BIOS, it return right size value
then we feed zero DataSize.


Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee

>
> Found on Acer Aspire V3 BIOS, it will not return the size of data if we input a
> non-zero DataSize.
>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> index e4a86a6..cb59732 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static efi_status_t virt_efi_get_next_variable(unsigned long *name_size,
> }
>
> if (boot_used_size && !finished) {
> - unsigned long size;
> + unsigned long size = 0;
> u32 attr;
> efi_status_t s;
> void *tmp;


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