diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c
index 2c41eaece2c1..47722003b8fc 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ static efi_status_t handle_cmdline_files(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
 	struct file_info *files;
 	unsigned long file_addr;
 	u64 file_size_total;
-	efi_file_handle_t *fh;
+	efi_file_handle_t *fh = NULL;
 	efi_status_t status;
 	int nr_files;
 	char *str;
@@ -536,18 +536,8 @@ static char *efi_convert_cmdline_to_ascii(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
 	}
 
 	options_size++;  /* NUL termination */
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARM
-	/*
-	 * For ARM, allocate at a high address to avoid reserved
-	 * regions at low addresses that we don't know the specfics of
-	 * at the time we are processing the command line.
-	 */
-	status = efi_high_alloc(sys_table_arg, options_size, 0,
-			    &cmdline_addr, 0xfffff000);
-#else
-	status = efi_low_alloc(sys_table_arg, options_size, 0,
-			    &cmdline_addr);
-#endif
+
+	status = efi_low_alloc(sys_table_arg, options_size, 0, &cmdline_addr);
 	if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
 		return NULL;