[PATCH] efi: payload: handle NULL return from loadable_view for ramdisk

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at barebox.org
Thu May 7 04:51:12 PDT 2026


loadable_view() can return NULL (distinct from ERR_PTR), which is not
caught by IS_ERR().

efi_load_os() already handles this with the ?: ERR_PTR(-ENODATA) pattern,
so apply the same to efi_load_ramdisk().

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at barebox.org>
---
 efi/payload/bootm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/efi/payload/bootm.c b/efi/payload/bootm.c
index 30b6fe8977e0..2f9cc3cbf76b 100644
--- a/efi/payload/bootm.c
+++ b/efi/payload/bootm.c
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static int efi_load_ramdisk(struct image_data *data,
 	if (!data->initrd)
 		return 0;
 
-	initrd_mem = loadable_view(data->initrd, initrd_size);
+	initrd_mem = loadable_view(data->initrd, initrd_size) ?: ERR_PTR(-ENODATA);
 	if (IS_ERR(initrd_mem)) {
 		pr_err("Cannot open ramdisk image: %pe\n", initrd_mem);
 		return PTR_ERR(initrd_mem);
-- 
2.47.3




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