Re: [PATCH 2/2] efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default.

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On Thu, 18 Feb, at 02:25:39PM, Peter Jones wrote:
> 
> Yes - the original one (the bottom here) the return is "is the variable
> valid", and we're declaring that anything outside of our list does not
> /need/ to be validated, and is thus valid.  
> 
> In the new one (top), the function is "does the variable match this
> entry in the table", and we're saying any case that isn't ASCII does not
> match, except by globbing.  The calling function, efivar_validate(),
> then never runs a ->validate() method on the variable data, eventually
> exits the loop having matched nothing, and returns true.
 
Thanks for that explanation.

> Do you want me to resend with the crash guid one line fix as its own
> separate patch?

Don't worry, I'll take care of it.
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