From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <516E2717.3020309@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:37:43 +0800 From: Lingzhu Xiang MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luis Henriques CC: Seiji Aguchi , Matt Fleming , Josh Boyer , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , stable@vger.kernel.org, "Lee, Chun-Yi" , "kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com" , Michael Schroeder , Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH 097/102] efivars: explicitly calculate length of VariableName References: <1365414657-29191-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> <1365414657-29191-98-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> <1365547506.5814.36.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> <51653E81.4090102@redhat.com> <20130410121730.GB3049@hercules> <20130411091256.GA11370@hercules> <20130416103321.GB3054@hercules> In-Reply-To: <20130416103321.GB3054@hercules> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/16/2013 06:33 PM, Luis Henriques wrote: > 68d929862e29a8b52a7f2f2f86a0600423b093cd efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables This prevents a bricking issue for some Samsung devices but causes regression on many other machines. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55471 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947142 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/1078 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/47150 This patchset will fix it again: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/1081