From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 09:09:41 -0600 From: Seth Forshee To: Matt Fleming Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: Problem mounting efivarfs in 3.9 Message-ID: <20130307150941.GB24233@thinkpad-t410> References: <20130307145601.GA24233@thinkpad-t410> <1362668558.15011.203.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1362668558.15011.203.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 03:02:38PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote: > 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, > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136258373231608&w=2 Great. Thanks! Seth