efi_get_var() allocates memory which must be freed after the variable is used. Since the device path is duplicated after we deserialize the load options free the memory used for the variable payload

Fixes: db61e70e0d2a efi_loader: efi_dp_from_lo() should skip VenMedia node Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org --- lib/efi_loader/efi_helper.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_helper.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_helper.c index 65d2116381ae..916f43da26c7 100644 --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_helper.c +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_helper.c @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ out: */ struct efi_device_path *efi_get_dp_from_boot(const efi_guid_t *guid) { + struct efi_device_path *file_path = NULL; struct efi_load_option lo; void *var_value; efi_uintn_t size; @@ -92,11 +93,11 @@ struct efi_device_path *efi_get_dp_from_boot(const efi_guid_t *guid) if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS) goto err;

- return efi_dp_from_lo(&lo, guid); + file_path = efi_dp_from_lo(&lo, guid);

err: free(var_value); - return NULL; + return file_path; }

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