[PATCH master 00/39] efi: fix bugs

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Mon Feb 16 00:44:00 PST 2026


While adding new tests for the barebox EFI support, a number of issues
were unearthed. Additionally, I ran Claude Code to determine suspicious
looking patterns and it found a number of extra issues, mostly in error
paths.

Except for patches 36, 37 and 38, all other patches affect only efi/,
so I hope it's ok to merge into master after review.

Ahmad Fatoum (39):
  efi: fix potential NULL dereference
  efi: trace: fix EFI_EXIT2 to not evaluate output value on error
  efi: loader: fix CRC32 computation in table header update
  efi: loader: fix pointer vs value comparison in free_efi_only
  efi: loader: fix disk write return value check
  efi: loader: fix EFI_ENTRY/EFI_EXIT ordering in efi_set_time
  efi: runtime: fix missing EFI_EXIT in efirt_query_variable_info
  efi: loader: fix file handle leak in efi_file_from_path
  efi: loader: fix missing field init in deferred protocol add
  efi: loader: fix memory leak in efi_var_to_file
  efi: loader: fix multiple bugs in efi_loader_bootm
  efi: loader: fix return type and memory leak in efi_smbios_register
  efi: loader: fix memory leak in efi_dp_split_file_path
  efi: loader: fix HII string table realloc and memset bugs
  efi: loader: fix format specifier and missing EFI_EXIT in boot
    services
  efi: fix unreachable free in efi_set_variable_printf
  efi: payload: fix missing NULL check after read_file in handover
  efi: payload: fix EFI page leak in efi_read_file
  efi: payload: fix inverted error check after state_load
  efi: fix out-of-bounds read in device path unknown node printing
  efi: payload: fix wrong page count in efi_unload_fdt
  efi: fix out-of-bounds read in 1394 device path printing
  efi: loader: initialize block IO ops before installing protocol
  efi: runtime: fix variable store bounds check to account for alignment
  efi: fix Fibre Channel device path type vs sub_type comparison
  efi: loader: fix file open mode always setting O_RDWR
  efi: loader: fix NULL pointer dereference when deleting root volume
    handle
  efi: loader: fix memory leak of variable file buffer on success
  efi: loader: fix memory leak in efi_var_collect on buffer overflow
  efi: fix signed format specifier for uint64_t timestamp
  efi: payload: fix possible memory leaks during init
  efi: payload: protect against missing state alias
  efi: loader: fix stale return value in console out-of-memory path
  efi: loader: fix off-by-one in FAT codepage translation
  efi: loader: fix co-existence with EFI payload support
  efi: payload: skip ELF MMU handling when booted via stub
  efi: payload: register dummy device tree
  console: introduce helper for printing binary buffers as-is
  efi: loader: protocol: console: don't turn LF into CRLF

 common/console.c                         | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/of/base.c                        |  8 ++++--
 efi/devicepath.c                         |  6 ++---
 efi/efivar-filename.c                    |  3 +++
 efi/efivar.c                             |  7 ++++--
 efi/loader/boot.c                        |  4 +--
 efi/loader/bootm.c                       | 22 ++++++++--------
 efi/loader/defaultvars.c                 |  4 +++
 efi/loader/devicepath.c                  |  4 ++-
 efi/loader/efi_var_common.c              |  4 ++-
 efi/loader/efi_var_file.c                |  5 ++--
 efi/loader/memory.c                      |  2 +-
 efi/loader/protocols/console.c           | 32 +++++++++---------------
 efi/loader/protocols/disk.c              | 26 +++++++++----------
 efi/loader/protocols/file.c              | 19 +++++++++++---
 efi/loader/protocols/hii.c               |  5 ++--
 efi/loader/protocols/unicode_collation.c |  2 +-
 efi/loader/runtime.c                     |  4 +--
 efi/loader/setup.c                       |  8 +++++-
 efi/loader/smbios.c                      |  3 ++-
 efi/loader/table.c                       |  1 +
 efi/payload/boarddata.c                  | 11 ++++++++
 efi/payload/bootm.c                      |  2 +-
 efi/payload/entry-multi.c                | 13 ++++++++++
 efi/payload/handover.c                   | 16 +++++++++---
 efi/payload/image.c                      |  4 ++-
 efi/payload/init.c                       | 12 +++++++--
 efi/runtime/efi_var_mem.c                |  4 +--
 efi/runtime/services.c                   |  4 +--
 include/console.h                        |  1 +
 include/efi/loader/trace.h               | 10 +++++---
 include/efi/mode.h                       |  6 ++++-
 pbl/mmu.c                                |  4 +++
 33 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)

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