[PATCH v3 03/19] firmware_loader: EFI firmware loader must handle pre-allocated buffer

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 08:50:33AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:07:00PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 02:36:24PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > The EFI platform firmware fallback would clobber any pre-allocated
> > > buffers. Instead, correctly refuse to reallocate when too small (as
> > > already done in the sysfs fallback), or perform allocation normally
> > > when needed.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: e4c2c0ff00ec ("firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firm ware_request_platform()")
> > 
> > "firmware_request_platform()" :)
> 
> Weird... I'm not sure where that mangling happened. Perhaps a bad
> cut/paste at 80 columns? Hmpf; thanks for catching. I've updated it on
> my end (I assume you fixed this manually, though?)

Yes, I fixed it up already, no worries.

greg k-h