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

[Luis Henriques]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:27:48AM +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote:
> On 04/17/2013 09:28 PM, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > 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.)
> 
> Unfortunately yes.
> 
> The whole series are mostly solving pstore bugs and pstore trashing
> firmware. If you want to prevent more bricking from happening asap,
> a temporary choice is to allow disabling efi pstore altogether with these:
> 
> ed9dc8ce7a1c8115dba9483a9b51df8b63a2e0ef efivars: Allow disabling use as a pstore backend
> ec0971ba5372a4dfa753f232449d23a8fd98490e efivars: Add module parameter to disable use as a pstore backend
> ca0ba26fbbd2d81c43085df49ce0abfe34535a90 efivars: Fix check for CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE

Thanks a lot for your help.  I'll just pick these and queue them for
3.5.y.

Cheers,
--
Luis