[GIT PULL] EFI urgent fix

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Folks, please pull the following fix from Laszlo that ensures we don't
perform an out-of-bounds access when matching EFI variable names
against the variable protection whitelist.

The following changes since commit c3b46c73264b03000d1e18b22f5caf63332547c9:

  Linux 4.6-rc4 (2016-04-17 19:13:32 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git tags/efi-urgent

for you to fetch changes up to 630ba0cc7a6dbafbdee43795617c872b35cde1b4:

  efi: Fix out-of-bounds read in variable_matches() (2016-04-22 19:41:41 +0100)

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 * Avoid out-of-bounds access in the efivars code when performing
   string matching on converted EFI variable names - Laszlo Ersek

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Laszlo Ersek (1):
      efi: Fix out-of-bounds read in variable_matches()

 drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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