There is a race and a buffer overflow while reading an efi variable and the first patch fixes it. The second patch adds a sanity check to efivar_store_raw(). The original patchset applies to the 5.x trees fine. Vladis Dronov (2): efi: fix a race and a buffer overflow while reading efivars via sysfs efi: add a sanity check to efivar_store_raw() drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)