[Bug 1429890] Re: fwts: efirtauthvar kernel NULL ptr dereference on 64 bit ARM

2015-04-01 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
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[Bug 1429890] Re: fwts: efirtauthvar kernel NULL ptr dereference on 64 bit ARM

2015-04-01 Thread Colin Ian King
** Changed in: fwts Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1429890 Title:

[Bug 1429890] Re: fwts: efirtauthvar kernel NULL ptr dereference on 64 bit ARM

2015-03-18 Thread Colin Ian King
Fix committed, commit 3d0e2b946525d24b525ee7939a9d6dd6e9f3396a ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress = Fix Committed ** Changed in: fwts Status: In Progress = Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1429890] Re: fwts: efirtauthvar kernel NULL ptr dereference on 64 bit ARM

2015-03-10 Thread Colin Ian King
Also being tracked here: https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1319 ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Colin Ian King (colin-king) ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: New = In Progress ** Also affects: fwts Importance: Undecided Status: New **

[Bug 1429890] Re: fwts: efirtauthvar kernel NULL ptr dereference on 64 bit ARM

2015-03-10 Thread Colin Ian King
I've given this some thought and I believe it's because we're doing zero byte efivars and the efi driver does a zero byte kmalloc which does not return NULL and we then scribble over memory that is not actually allocated. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu