On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:42:13AM -0700, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > From: Gen Zhang <[email protected]> > > commit 4e78921ba4dd0aca1cc89168f45039add4183f8e upstream. > > The old_memmap flow in efi_call_phys_prolog() performs numerous memory > allocations, and either does not check for failure at all, or it does > but fails to propagate it back to the caller, which may end up calling > into the firmware with an incomplete 1:1 mapping. > > So let's fix this by returning NULL from efi_call_phys_prolog() on > memory allocation failures only, and by handling this condition in the > caller. Also, clean up any half baked sets of page tables that we may > have created before returning with a NULL return value. > > Note that any failure at this level will trigger a panic() two levels > up, so none of this makes a huge difference, but it is a nice cleanup > nonetheless.
With a description like this, why is this needed in a stable kernel if it does not really fix anything useful? thanks, greg k-h
