linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fix

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Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:26:41 +0100
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@...il.com>,
	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...hat.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...eos.com>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fix

Folks, please pull the following fix from Laszlo that ensures we don't
perform an out-of-bounds access when matching EFI variable names
against the variable protection whitelist.

The following changes since commit c3b46c73264b03000d1e18b22f5caf63332547c9:

  Linux 4.6-rc4 (2016-04-17 19:13:32 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git tags/efi-urgent

for you to fetch changes up to 630ba0cc7a6dbafbdee43795617c872b35cde1b4:

  efi: Fix out-of-bounds read in variable_matches() (2016-04-22 19:41:41 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
 * Avoid out-of-bounds access in the efivars code when performing
   string matching on converted EFI variable names - Laszlo Ersek

----------------------------------------------------------------
Laszlo Ersek (1):
      efi: Fix out-of-bounds read in variable_matches()

 drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)