Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933104Ab3CGPBa (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:01:30 -0500 Received: from hapkido.dreamhost.com ([66.33.216.122]:44751 "EHLO hapkido.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932252Ab3CGPB1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:01:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:00:47 -0500 From: shea@shealevy.com To: Matt Fleming , , , Subject: Re: Problem mounting efivarfs in 3.9 In-Reply-To: <20130307145601.GA24233@thinkpad-t410> References: <20130307145601.GA24233@thinkpad-t410> Message-ID: <2fd64c1f6943602b91c8f28a45243e20@shealevy.com> User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.8.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1028 Lines: 26 Hi Seth, On 2013-03-07 09:56, 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 fix for this is already in mfleming/efi.git: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git/commit/?h=urgent&id=123abd76edf56c02a76b46d3d673897177ef067b . It's included in the efi-for-3.9-rc2 tag, and cc'd stable. Cheers, Shea Levy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/