4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
commit a75dcb5848359f488c32c0aef8711d9bd37a77b8 upstream.
We should return -ENOMEM here, instead of success.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 475fb4e8b2f4 ("efi / ACPI: load SSTDs from EFI variables")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161018143318.15673-9-m...@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -259,8 +259,10 @@ static __init int efivar_ssdt_load(void)
}
data = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!data)
+ if (!data) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
goto free_entry;
+ }
ret = efivar_entry_get(entry, NULL, &size, data);
if (ret) {
