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/*
* Some firmware has serious problems when using more than 50% of the EFI
* variable store, i.e. it triggers bugs that can brick machines. Ensure that
* we never use more than this safe limit.
*
* Return EFI_SUCCESS if it is safe to write 'size' bytes to the variable
* store.
*/
efi_status_t efi_query_variable_store(u32 attributes, unsigned long size)
{
efi_status_t status;
u64 storage_size, remaining_size, max_size;
status = efi.query_variable_info(attributes, &storage_size,
&remaining_size, &max_size);
if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
return status;
if (!max_size && remaining_size > size)
printk_once(KERN_ERR FW_BUG "Broken EFI implementation"
" is returning MaxVariableSize=0\n");
if (!storage_size || size > remaining_size ||
(max_size && size > max_size) ||
(remaining_size - size) < (storage_size / 2))
return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES;
return EFI_SUCCESS;
}