From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
To: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efivarfs: loosen restriction on valid names
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:09:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362668955.15011.204.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5138ACFE.30701@canonical.com>
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 <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.8]
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136266857528382&w=2
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