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Lee, Chun-Yi committed eccaf52fee8
x86, efi: initial the local variable of DataSize to zero That will be better initial the value of DataSize to zero for the input of GetVariable(), otherwise we will feed a random value. The debug log of input DataSize like this: ... [ 195.915612] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 [ 195.915819] efi: size: 18446744071581821342 [ 195.915969] efi: size': 18446744071581821342 [ 195.916324] efi: size: 18446612150714306560 [ 195.916632] efi: size': 18446612150714306560 [ 195.917159] efi: size: 18446612150714306560 [ 195.917453] efi: size': 18446612150714306560 ... The size' is value that was returned by BIOS. After applied this patch: [ 82.442042] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 [ 82.442202] efi: size: 0 [ 82.442360] efi: size': 1039 [ 82.443828] efi: size: 0 [ 82.444127] efi: size': 2616 [ 82.447057] efi: size: 0 [ 82.447356] efi: size': 5832 ... Found on Acer Aspire V3 BIOS, it will not return the size of data if we input a non-zero DataSize. Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>