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Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h index 5b5e9cb774b5..ff808ef4fdb4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h @@ -14,13 +14,15 @@ * analysis of kexec-tools; if other broken bootloaders initialize a * different set of fields we will need to figure out how to disambiguate. * + * Note: efi_info is commonly left uninitialized, but that field has a + * private magic, so it is better to leave it unchanged. */ static void sanitize_boot_params(struct boot_params *boot_params) { if (boot_params->sentinel) { /*fields in boot_params are not valid, clear them */ memset(&boot_params->olpc_ofw_header, 0, - (char *)&boot_params->alt_mem_k - + (char *)&boot_params->efi_info - (char *)&boot_params->olpc_ofw_header); memset(&boot_params->kbd_status, 0, (char *)&boot_params->hdr - |