Remove a redundant memset() call from efi_relocate_kernel() that
was clearing memory that would be used by BSS in non-compressed
images loaded with this function. This clear was redundant with
the clearing done in the image itself, and also implemented incorrectly
with a 0 length.
Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.fr...@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mark Salter <msal...@redhat.com>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c
b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c
index cc0581d..b6bffbf 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c
@@ -567,8 +567,6 @@ static efi_status_t efi_relocate_kernel(efi_system_table_t
*sys_table_arg,
* have been allocated by UEFI, so we can safely use memcpy.
*/
memcpy((void *)new_addr, (void *)cur_image_addr, image_size);
- /* Zero any extra space we may have allocated for BSS. */
- memset((void *)(new_addr + image_size), alloc_size - image_size, 0);
/* Return the new address of the relocated image. */
*image_addr = new_addr;
--
1.7.10.4
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