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authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2013-04-29 20:06:37 +0100
committerMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2013-04-30 16:03:02 +0100
commit12abcfde1ad3ee9bed726d25fdd4eeb31026b187 (patch)
tree345350110b780e84ff326df0804fb59c7a8f9886 /drivers/firmware
parent4ee39e979c80543095601b4bd812565a0928b56d (diff)
downloadlinux-12abcfde1ad3ee9bed726d25fdd4eeb31026b187.tar.bz2
efi, pstore: Remove entry from list when erasing
We need to remove the entry from the EFI variable list before we erase it from the variable store and free the associated state, otherwise it's possible to hit the following crash, BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffff8142ea0f>] __efivar_entry_iter+0xcf/0x120 PGD 19483f067 PUD 195426067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [...] Call Trace: [<ffffffff81430ebf>] efi_pstore_erase+0xef/0x140 [<ffffffff81003138>] ? math_error+0x288/0x2d0 [<ffffffff811ea491>] pstore_unlink+0x41/0x60 [<ffffffff811741ff>] vfs_unlink+0x9f/0x110 [<ffffffff8117813b>] do_unlinkat+0x18b/0x280 [<ffffffff8116d7e6>] ? sys_newfstatat+0x36/0x50 [<ffffffff81178472>] sys_unlinkat+0x22/0x40 [<ffffffff81543282>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Reported-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Tested-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
index 583ee8037f4d..af45c42086e1 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ static int efi_pstore_erase_func(struct efivar_entry *entry, void *data)
/* found */
__efivar_entry_delete(entry);
+ list_del(&entry->list);
+
return 1;
}