[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "x86, efi: Set runtime_version to the EFI spec revision" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86, efi: Set runtime_version to the EFI spec revision

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From c9682282ee33efa2ed847f48afa58839ccabca96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:07:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] x86, efi: Set runtime_version to the EFI spec revision

commit 712ba9e9afc4b3d3d6fa81565ca36fe518915c01 upstream.

efi.runtime_version is erroneously being set to the value of the
vendor's firmware revision instead of that of the implemented EFI
specification. We can't deduce which EFI functions are available based
on the revision of the vendor's firmware since the version scheme is
likely to be unique to each vendor.

What we really need to know is the revision of the implemented EFI
specification, which is available in the EFI System Table header.

Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi at hds.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index 72d8899..6825327 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
 	 *
 	 * Call EFI services through wrapper functions.
 	 */
-	efi.runtime_version = efi_systab.fw_revision;
+	efi.runtime_version = efi_systab.hdr.revision;
 	efi.get_time = virt_efi_get_time;
 	efi.set_time = virt_efi_set_time;
 	efi.get_wakeup_time = virt_efi_get_wakeup_time;
--
1.7.9.5