I really think the description is wrong. the problem isn't anything to do with memset, it's because we're not getting a new allocation each time we call efivar_create_sysfs_entries(). How about this? --- Subject: [PATCH] efivar: fix oops in efivar_update_sysfs_entries() caused by memory reuse The loop in efivar_update_sysfs_entries() reuses the same allocation for entries each time it calls efivar_create_sysfs_entry(entry). This is wrong because efivar_create_sysfs_entry() expects to keep the memory it was passed, so the caller may not free it (and may not pass the same memory in multiple times). This leads to the oops below. Fix by getting a new allocation each time we go around the loop. [insert oops report here] --- James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
