Patch "efi: Expose non-blocking set_variable() wrapper to efivars" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    efi: Expose non-blocking set_variable() wrapper to efivars

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     efi-expose-non-blocking-set_variable-wrapper-to-efivars.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 9c6672ac9c91f7eb1ec436be1442b8c26d098e55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 22:06:55 +0000
Subject: efi: Expose non-blocking set_variable() wrapper to efivars

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

commit 9c6672ac9c91f7eb1ec436be1442b8c26d098e55 upstream.

Commit 6d80dba1c9fe ("efi: Provide a non-blocking SetVariable()
operation") implemented a non-blocking alternative for the UEFI
SetVariable() invocation performed by efivars, since it may
occur in atomic context. However, this version of the function
was never exposed via the efivars struct, so the non-blocking
versions was not actually callable. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6d80dba1c9fe ("efi: Provide a non-blocking SetVariable() operation")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454364428-494-2-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ static int generic_ops_register(void)
 {
 	generic_ops.get_variable = efi.get_variable;
 	generic_ops.set_variable = efi.set_variable;
+	generic_ops.set_variable_nonblocking = efi.set_variable_nonblocking;
 	generic_ops.get_next_variable = efi.get_next_variable;
 	generic_ops.query_variable_store = efi_query_variable_store;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org are

queue-4.4/efi-expose-non-blocking-set_variable-wrapper-to-efivars.patch
queue-4.4/arm64-honour-pte_write-in-set_pte_at-for-kernel-mappings.patch