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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-25T10:07:01Z

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()" :)