Fix potential vulnerable cloned function #30
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Summary
Our tool detected a potential vulnerability in drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c which was cloned from torvalds/linux@9cb636b but did not receive the security patch. The original issue was reported and fixed under CVE-2022-40307.
Proposed Fix
Apply the same patch as the one in torvalds/linux to eliminate the vulnerability.
Reference
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40307
torvalds/linux@9cb636b