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-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c23
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
index 97a9e84840a0..e7b9ec6f8a86 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ MODULE_IMPORT_NS(EFIVAR);
#define DUMP_NAME_LEN 66
-#define EFIVARS_DATA_SIZE_MAX 1024
+static unsigned int record_size = 1024;
+module_param(record_size, uint, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(record_size, "size of each pstore UEFI var (in bytes, min/default=1024)");
static bool efivars_pstore_disable =
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE);
@@ -30,7 +32,7 @@ static int efi_pstore_open(struct pstore_info *psi)
if (err)
return err;
- psi->data = kzalloc(EFIVARS_DATA_SIZE_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
+ psi->data = kzalloc(record_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!psi->data)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@ static inline u64 generic_id(u64 timestamp, unsigned int part, int count)
static int efi_pstore_read_func(struct pstore_record *record,
efi_char16_t *varname)
{
- unsigned long wlen, size = EFIVARS_DATA_SIZE_MAX;
+ unsigned long wlen, size = record_size;
char name[DUMP_NAME_LEN], data_type;
efi_status_t status;
int cnt;
@@ -133,7 +135,7 @@ static ssize_t efi_pstore_read(struct pstore_record *record)
efi_status_t status;
for (;;) {
- varname_size = EFIVARS_DATA_SIZE_MAX;
+ varname_size = 1024;
/*
* If this is the first read() call in the pstore enumeration,
@@ -224,11 +226,20 @@ static __init int efivars_pstore_init(void)
if (efivars_pstore_disable)
return 0;
- efi_pstore_info.buf = kmalloc(4096, GFP_KERNEL);
+ /*
+ * Notice that 1024 is the minimum here to prevent issues with
+ * decompression algorithms that were spotted during tests;
+ * even in the case of not using compression, smaller values would
+ * just pollute more the pstore FS with many small collected files.
+ */
+ if (record_size < 1024)
+ record_size = 1024;
+
+ efi_pstore_info.buf = kmalloc(record_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!efi_pstore_info.buf)
return -ENOMEM;
- efi_pstore_info.bufsize = 1024;
+ efi_pstore_info.bufsize = record_size;
if (pstore_register(&efi_pstore_info)) {
kfree(efi_pstore_info.buf);