diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
index 36ec1f718893..d9895491ff34 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ config EFI_DEV_PATH_PARSER
 
 config EFI_EARLYCON
 	def_bool y
-	depends on SERIAL_EARLYCON && !ARM && !IA64
+	depends on EFI && SERIAL_EARLYCON && !ARM && !IA64
 	select FONT_SUPPORT
 	select ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
 
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index 5e5480a0a32d..6c6eec044a97 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -390,10 +390,10 @@ static int __init efisubsys_init(void)
 
 	if (efi_rt_services_supported(EFI_RT_SUPPORTED_GET_VARIABLE |
 				      EFI_RT_SUPPORTED_GET_NEXT_VARIABLE_NAME)) {
-		efivar_ssdt_load();
 		error = generic_ops_register();
 		if (error)
 			goto err_put;
+		efivar_ssdt_load();
 		platform_device_register_simple("efivars", 0, NULL, 0);
 	}
 
diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/inode.c b/fs/efivarfs/inode.c
index 96c0c86f3fff..0297ad95eb5c 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/inode.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <linux/efi.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/uuid.h>
 
@@ -103,6 +104,7 @@ static int efivarfs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 	var->var.VariableName[i] = '\0';
 
 	inode->i_private = var;
+	kmemleak_ignore(var);
 
 	err = efivar_entry_add(var, &efivarfs_list);
 	if (err)
diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
index f943fd0b0699..15880a68faad 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ LIST_HEAD(efivarfs_list);
 static void efivarfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	clear_inode(inode);
-	kfree(inode->i_private);
 }
 
 static const struct super_operations efivarfs_ops = {