diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index 55856b2310d37d76240a2af47140f2deb97e8482..82089d8b1954b562087c65b0a187b5cdf441748f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ static efi_status_t virt_efi_get_next_variable(unsigned long *name_size,
 	}
 
 	if (boot_used_size && !finished) {
-		unsigned long size;
+		unsigned long size = 0;
 		u32 attr;
 		efi_status_t s;
 		void *tmp;
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
index b623c599e572975fd30db879da54194ef025dcf7..8bd1bb6dbe4739cf0914a129a12363c1bf157820 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
@@ -523,13 +523,11 @@ static void efivar_update_sysfs_entries(struct work_struct *work)
 	struct efivar_entry *entry;
 	int err;
 
-	entry = kzalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!entry)
-		return;
-
 	/* Add new sysfs entries */
 	while (1) {
-		memset(entry, 0, sizeof(*entry));
+		entry = kzalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!entry)
+			return;
 
 		err = efivar_init(efivar_update_sysfs_entry, entry,
 				  true, false, &efivar_sysfs_list);
diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/file.c b/fs/efivarfs/file.c
index bfb531564319608be19b63885142eb6b5c7648d9..8dd524f322847b346e119c6d5c5b3693de6fb8bc 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/file.c
@@ -44,8 +44,11 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struct file *file,
 
 	bytes = efivar_entry_set_get_size(var, attributes, &datasize,
 					  data, &set);
-	if (!set && bytes)
+	if (!set && bytes) {
+		if (bytes == -ENOENT)
+			bytes = -EIO;
 		goto out;
+	}
 
 	if (bytes == -ENOENT) {
 		drop_nlink(inode);
@@ -76,7 +79,14 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf,
 	int err;
 
 	err = efivar_entry_size(var, &datasize);
-	if (err)
+
+	/*
+	 * efivarfs represents uncommitted variables with
+	 * zero-length files. Reading them should return EOF.
+	 */
+	if (err == -ENOENT)
+		return 0;
+	else if (err)
 		return err;
 
 	data = kmalloc(datasize + sizeof(attributes), GFP_KERNEL);