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

[Luis Henriques]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 08:13:57PM +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote:
> On 04/17/2013 07:56 PM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:37:43PM +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote:
> >>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
> >
> >Thanks for the pointer.  I note that in that thread you yourself imply
> >there are still issues after applying them?  Was that accurate, is there
> >yet further patches needed?
> 
> I just find that issue. Didn't see that when writing the above.
> 
> Earlier I was testing on a different machine and the result was
> good. I guess the patch still needs some more testing.

Thanks Lingzhu.

So, I guess you would recommend me to drop the whole series until we
have this patchset accepted, tested and back-ported for 3.5, correct?

(I tried to isolate the one you pointed out, but I'm afraid there are
too many dependencies between them to drop a single patch.)

Cheers,
--
Luis