tree 6e537d3a4b7857d6cfc58e63c954e43f219dee74
parent 05e9c3dbdefa1195b43ca9d61fb1178b22129eac
author Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> 1364202870 +0000
committer chrmhoffmann <chrmhoffmann@gmail.com> 1586074811 +0200

x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code

commit a6e4d5a03e9e3587e88aba687d8f225f4f04c792 upstream.

Let's not burden ia64 with checks in the common efivars code that we're not
writing too much data to the variable store. That kind of thing is an x86
firmware bug, plain and simple.

efi_query_variable_store() provides platforms with a wrapper in which they can
perform checks and workarounds for EFI variable storage bugs.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
[xr: Backported to 3.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>