[PATCH 097/102] efivars: explicitly calculate length of VariableName

[Lingzhu Xiang]

On 04/16/2013 06:33 PM, Luis Henriques wrote:
> 68d929862e29a8b52a7f2f2f86a0600423b093cd efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables

This prevents a bricking issue for some Samsung devices but causes 
regression on many other machines.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55471
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947142
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/1078
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/47150

This patchset will fix it again:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/1081