Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932913Ab3CGPJV (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:09:21 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:49316 "EHLO mail-wg0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759025Ab3CGPJU (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:09:20 -0500 Message-ID: <1362668955.15011.204.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] efivarfs: loosen restriction on valid names From: Matt Fleming To: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: Matthew Garrett , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Seth Forshee Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:09:15 +0000 In-Reply-To: <5138ACFE.30701@canonical.com> References: <5138ACFE.30701@canonical.com> Organization: Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd. - Registered No. 1134945 - Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4 (3.4.4-2.fc17) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 17 On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 16:06 +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: > Commit da27a2438 (efivarfs: guid part of filenames are case-insensitive) fails to boot, > because the kernel creates files in the form of dump-type-x-y-z-GUID. Since the kernel already > created files in this form, these type of files obviously exist, so the right course of action > is to relax the restriction in efivarfs_valid_name. > > Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.8] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136266857528382&w=2 -- 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/