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 <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
---
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;
--
1.6.0.2
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