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From: joeyli <jlee@suse.com>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.com>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efivarfs: fix abnormal GUID in variable name by using strcpy to replace null with dash
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:03:33 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362665013.28562.48.camel@linux-s257.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362664663.15011.194.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com>

Hi Matt, 

於 四,2013-03-07 於 13:57 +0000,Matt Fleming 提到:
> On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 11:39 +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 18:34 +0800, joeyli wrote:
> > > The VariableNameSize is not reliable when EFI_SUCCESS is returned
> > > because UEFI 2.3.1 spec only mention VariableNameSize should updated
> > > when EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL is returned. And, the 1024 bytes of buffer is
> > > from old UEFI spec. There doesn't have any size condition of variable
> > > data or variable name in 2.3.1 spec.
> > 
> > The spec may only mention what happens in the EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL case,
> > but for EFI_SUCCESS, any behaviour other than leaving VariableNameSize
> > alone or updating it with the required size of the buffer is just
> > completely insane.
> > 
> > > I modified the patch to grab VariableNameSize when EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL,
> > > the behavior like what we do in efivarfs_file_read().
> > 
> > Thanks, this does seem like the most robust solution.
> 
> Also, you're probably going to need to update
> efivar_update_sysfs_entries() too.
> 

Thanks for your review! I will send out v2 patch after modify and test
on issue machine.


Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-07 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-01  3:20 [PATCH] efivarfs: fix abnormal GUID in variable name by using strcpy to replace null with dash Lee, Chun-Yi
2013-03-01  9:31 ` Lingzhu Xiang
2013-03-01 14:49   ` joeyli
2013-03-01 15:17 ` Matt Fleming
2013-03-01 16:31   ` Matt Fleming
2013-03-01 23:41     ` joeyli
2013-03-06  7:34       ` joeyli
2013-03-06  7:39         ` joeyli
2013-03-06  9:20         ` Lingzhu Xiang
2013-03-06 11:21           ` Matt Fleming
2013-03-07  8:03           ` joeyli
2013-03-06 11:19         ` Matt Fleming
2013-03-06 11:58           ` Frederic Crozat
2013-03-06 12:36             ` Matt Fleming
2013-03-06 13:30               ` Frederic Crozat
2013-03-06 13:38                 ` Matt Fleming
2013-03-07 10:34           ` joeyli
2013-03-07 11:39             ` Matt Fleming
2013-03-07 13:57               ` Matt Fleming
2013-03-07 14:03                 ` joeyli [this message]
2013-03-11 13:17                 ` joeyli
2013-03-18 15:29                   ` Matt Fleming
2013-03-08  6:37               ` joeyli

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