Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753646AbaFEEhj (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2014 00:37:39 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:44329 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753285AbaFEEVu (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2014 00:21:50 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Richard Weinberger , Matt Fleming , Ben Hutchings , Rui Xiang Subject: [PATCH 3.4 153/214] x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 21:18:36 -0700 Message-Id: <20140605041700.329791278@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.0.0 In-Reply-To: <20140605041639.638675216@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140605041639.638675216@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Richard Weinberger commit 8c58bf3eec3b8fc8162fe557e9361891c20758f2 upstream. Using this parameter one can disable the storage_size/2 check if he is really sure that the UEFI does sane gc and fulfills the spec. This parameter is useful if a devices uses more than 50% of the storage by default. The Intel DQSW67 desktop board is such a sucker for exmaple. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Cc: Rui Xiang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++ arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -773,6 +773,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes edd= [EDD] Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} + efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] + Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of + your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if + you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and + fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. + eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c @@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ static int __init setup_add_efi_memmap(c } early_param("add_efi_memmap", setup_add_efi_memmap); +static bool efi_no_storage_paranoia; + +static int __init setup_storage_paranoia(char *arg) +{ + efi_no_storage_paranoia = true; + return 0; +} +early_param("efi_no_storage_paranoia", setup_storage_paranoia); + static efi_status_t virt_efi_get_time(efi_time_t *tm, efi_time_cap_t *tc) { @@ -984,7 +993,10 @@ efi_status_t efi_query_variable_store(u3 " is returning MaxVariableSize=0\n"); if (!storage_size || size > remaining_size || - (max_size && size > max_size) || + (max_size && size > max_size)) + return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES; + + if (!efi_no_storage_paranoia && (remaining_size - size) < (storage_size / 2)) return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES; -- 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/