On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 at 13:25, Michael Schaller <misch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Without this patch efivarfs_alloc_dentry creates dentries with slashes in > their name if the respective EFI variable has slashes in its name. This in > turn causes EIO on getdents64, which prevents a complete directory listing > of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/. > > This patch replaces the invalid shlashes with exclamation marks like > kobject_set_name_vargs does for /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ to have consistently > named dentries under /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ and /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/. Thanks Michael Can you resend this with a signed-off-by line please? > --- > fs/efivarfs/super.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c > index 28bb5689333a..15880a68faad 100644 > --- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c > +++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c > @@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ static int efivarfs_callback(efi_char16_t *name16, efi_guid_t vendor, > > name[len + EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN+1] = '\0'; > > + /* replace invalid slashes like kobject_set_name_vargs does for /sys/firmware/efi/vars. */ > + strreplace(name, '/', '!'); > + > inode = efivarfs_get_inode(sb, d_inode(root), S_IFREG | 0644, 0, > is_removable); > if (!inode) > -- > 2.28.0.681.g6f77f65b4e-goog >
