This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
efivarfs: return accurate error code in efivarfs_fill_super()
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
efivarfs-return-accurate-error-code-in-efivarfs_fill_super.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From feff5dc4f98330d8152b521acc2e18c16712e6c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 12:46:30 +0000
Subject: efivarfs: return accurate error code in efivarfs_fill_super()
From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
commit feff5dc4f98330d8152b521acc2e18c16712e6c8 upstream.
Joseph was hitting a failure case when mounting efivarfs which
resulted in an incorrect error message,
$ sudo mount -v /sys/firmware/efi/efivars mount: Cannot allocate memory
triggered when efivarfs_valid_name() returned -EINVAL.
Make sure we pass accurate return values up the stack if
efivarfs_fill_super() fails to build inodes for EFI variables.
Reported-by: Joseph Yasi <joe.yasi@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -1110,15 +1110,22 @@ static struct dentry_operations efivarfs
static struct dentry *efivarfs_alloc_dentry(struct dentry *parent, char *name)
{
+ struct dentry *d;
struct qstr q;
+ int err;
q.name = name;
q.len = strlen(name);
- if (efivarfs_d_hash(NULL, NULL, &q))
- return NULL;
+ err = efivarfs_d_hash(NULL, NULL, &q);
+ if (err)
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
+
+ d = d_alloc(parent, &q);
+ if (d)
+ return d;
- return d_alloc(parent, &q);
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
static int efivarfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
@@ -1128,6 +1135,7 @@ static int efivarfs_fill_super(struct su
struct efivar_entry *entry, *n;
struct efivars *efivars = &__efivars;
char *name;
+ int err = -ENOMEM;
efivarfs_sb = sb;
@@ -1178,8 +1186,10 @@ static int efivarfs_fill_super(struct su
goto fail_name;
dentry = efivarfs_alloc_dentry(root, name);
- if (!dentry)
+ if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(dentry);
goto fail_inode;
+ }
/* copied by the above to local storage in the dentry. */
kfree(name);
@@ -1206,7 +1216,7 @@ fail_inode:
fail_name:
kfree(name);
fail:
- return -ENOMEM;
+ return err;
}
static struct dentry *efivarfs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/efivarfs-return-accurate-error-code-in-efivarfs_fill_super.patch
queue-3.8/efivars-efivarfs_valid_name-should-handle-pstore-syntax.patch
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