[PATCH] efi: pstore: Drop efivar lock when efi_pstore_open() returns with an error

Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-efi,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>

If kzalloc fails, the function returns -ENOMEM without calling
efivar_unlock(). Since open() returned  an error, the calling site
in pstore_get_backend_records() won't call the close() function, so
the lock is never released. Thus drop the lock in case of errors here.

Fixes: 859748255b434 ("efi: pstore: Omit efivars caching EFI varstore access layer")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
index a253b61449459..a5db3534f0a63 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
@@ -60,8 +60,10 @@ static int efi_pstore_open(struct pstore_info *psi)
 		return err;
 
 	psi->data = kzalloc(record_size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!psi->data)
+	if (!psi->data) {
+		efivar_unlock();
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.53.0
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