Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966302Ab3DQN3N (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:29:13 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:33167 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966204Ab3DQN3L (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:29:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:28:58 +0100 From: Luis Henriques To: Lingzhu Xiang Cc: Andy Whitcroft , Matt Fleming , Josh Boyer , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , stable@vger.kernel.org, "Lee, Chun-Yi" , "kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com" , Seiji Aguchi , Michael Schroeder Subject: Re: [PATCH 097/102] efivars: explicitly calculate length of VariableName Message-ID: <20130417132858.GA5577@hercules> References: <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> <516E2717.3020309@redhat.com> <20130417115641.GG15755@dm> <516E9205.3070200@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <516E9205.3070200@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1721 Lines: 43 On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 08:13:57PM +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote: > On 04/17/2013 07:56 PM, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:37:43PM +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote: > >>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 > > > >Thanks for the pointer. I note that in that thread you yourself imply > >there are still issues after applying them? Was that accurate, is there > >yet further patches needed? > > I just find that issue. Didn't see that when writing the above. > > Earlier I was testing on a different machine and the result was > good. I guess the patch still needs some more testing. Thanks Lingzhu. So, I guess you would recommend me to drop the whole series until we have this patchset accepted, tested and back-ported for 3.5, correct? (I tried to isolate the one you pointed out, but I'm afraid there are too many dependencies between them to drop a single patch.) Cheers, -- Luis -- 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/