Re: efivarfs fixes without the commit being fixed in 6.1 and 6.6 (resending without html)

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 10:43:05AM -0400, Ted Brandston wrote:
> Hi, this is my first time posting to a kernel list (third try, finally
> figured out the html-free -- sorry for the noise).
> 
> I noticed that in the 6.6 kernel there's a fix commit from Ard [1] but
> not the commit it's fixing ("efivarfs: Add uid/gid mount options").
> Same thing in 6.1 [2]. The commit being fixed doesn't appear until 6.7
> [3].
> 
> I'm not familiar with this code so it's unclear to me if this might
> cause problems, but I figured I should point it out.
> 
> [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/fs/efivarfs/super.c?h=linux-6.6.y&id=48be1364dd387e375e1274b76af986cb8747be2c
> [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/log/fs/efivarfs/super.c?h=linux-6.1.y
> [3]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/log/fs/efivarfs/super.c?h=linux-6.7.y

Good catch.  Ard, should this be reverted?

thanks,

greg k-h