From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: "Fleming, Matt" <matt.fleming@intel.com>, joeyli <jlee@suse.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modify UEFI anti-bricking code
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 20:59:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130605195953.GD30420@console-pimps.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1370448519.6315.36.camel@x230.lan>
On Wed, 05 Jun, at 04:08:39PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 16:59 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
>
> > + /* clean DUMMY object */
> > + efi.set_variable(efi_dummy_name, &EFI_DUMMY_GUID, 0, 0, NULL);
>
> Hm. Actually, is that going to work? From the spec:
>
> If a preexisting variable is rewritten with different attributes,
> SetVariable()shall not modify the variable and shall return
> EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER.
>
> So I think we probably need to fix the attributes to NV|RT|BS for both
> this call and the one in query_variable_store. We should probably also
> only do the workaround if the NV bit is set in the original query.
Yeah, that looks wrong.
Joey, care to resend an updated patch?
--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-05 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-01 20:06 [PATCH] Modify UEFI anti-bricking code Matthew Garrett
2013-06-02 15:48 ` Russ Anderson
2013-06-03 12:17 ` Matt Fleming
2013-06-03 14:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-03 16:13 ` joeyli
2013-06-03 16:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-04 3:35 ` joeyli
2013-06-05 14:49 ` Fleming, Matt
2013-06-05 14:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-05 15:59 ` Matt Fleming
2013-06-05 16:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-05 19:59 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2013-06-06 2:24 ` joeyli
2013-06-05 20:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-06 5:05 ` joeyli
2013-06-06 5:41 ` joeyli
2013-06-06 5:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-06 7:40 ` joeyli
2013-06-06 9:25 ` Matt Fleming
2013-06-06 14:48 ` Russ Anderson
2013-06-06 15:00 ` Matt Fleming
2013-06-06 15:28 ` Russ Anderson
2013-06-10 18:54 ` Russ Anderson
2013-06-04 5:29 ` Lingzhu Xiang
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