From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Problem mounting efivarfs in 3.9
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:02:38 +0000
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On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 08:56 -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> I found myself unable to mount efivarfs on one of my machines in 3.9.
> This is due to your patch to be more aggressive about validating
> filenames. This machine had some crash dumps from pstore, which start
> with "dump-type". However now efivars expects the guid to follow the
> first '-' character, despite the fact that the efivars pstore code is
> creating the file names starting with dump-type. Since these names fail
> the validation the mount fails.

A patch to allow pstore names is in the pull request I sent to Peter and
Ingo yesterday,

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