* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> [140905 03:19]: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 04 Sep, at 01:59:05PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> I am fine with this patch, but at the same time I do want to note that > >> there is an alternative to double-buffer the patch and/or (if that > >> applies to the buggy BIOS) round up the size of the target buffer. > > I'm not sure that rounding up the size of the target buffer will > > workaround this issue correctly. > > As far as I know, the only thing that Mantas tried was rounding up the > > size of the source file, by padding it. > Can you try attached patch on top of linus tree? I took the liberty to test the patch on my Dell XPS13 9333, and unfortunately I got the old hang back. This was tested on the current Linus' tree. Cheers, Anders Darander > - chunksize = size; > + chunksize = round_up(size, EFI_PAGE_SIZE); -- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. -- Mark Twain -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
