On Wed, 05 Jun, at 04:08:39PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 16:59 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > > > + /* clean DUMMY object */ > > + efi.set_variable(efi_dummy_name, &EFI_DUMMY_GUID, 0, 0, NULL); > > Hm. Actually, is that going to work? From the spec: > > If a preexisting variable is rewritten with different attributes, > SetVariable()shall not modify the variable and shall return > EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER. > > So I think we probably need to fix the attributes to NV|RT|BS for both > this call and the one in query_variable_store. We should probably also > only do the workaround if the NV bit is set in the original query.
Yeah, that looks wrong. Joey, care to resend an updated patch? -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
