[Quantal SRU][PATCH 0/1] LP#1063061 -- fix up efivarfs EFI variable locking

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Thu Oct 18 15:41:12 UTC 2012


Fix up locking for calls into the EFI firmware to ensure only one thread
of execution is reading or writing EFI variables at any one time.

Proposing for Quantal.

-apw

Jeremy Kerr (1):
  UBUNTU: SAUCE: efivarfs: Implement exclusive access for
    {get,set}_variable

 drivers/firmware/efivars.c |   68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

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