[Saucy][PATCH 0/1] efivars: check for EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES

[joseph.salisbury at canonical.com]

From: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury at canonical.com>

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1200570


== Saucy Justification ==

This bug causes a kernel panic on boot inside efivars_sysfs_init on a MacBookPro8,1.  This patch fixes the bug and allows the system to boot.  This fix is in the mainline kernel as of v3.11-rc2.


== Fix ==

commit d320c079efd46db1be0640d00bd6723d9e738f9f
Author: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
Date: Thu Jul 11 07:30:33 2013 +0100

    efivars: check for EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES

== Test Case ==

A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.  The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.

Matt Fleming (1):
  efivars: check for EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES

 drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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