On 26/04/13 18:19, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> 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
> ...
>
> Found on Acer Aspire V3 BIOS, it will not return the size of data if we input
> a
> non-zero DataSize.
>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <m...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.flem...@intel.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <j...@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;
>
Looks good to me. Matthew?
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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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