Re: [PATCH 4.4-5.9] efivarfs: Replace invalid slashes with exclamation marks in dentries.

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On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 1:18 PM Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:54:42AM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> > From: Michael Schaller <misch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 336af6a4686d885a067ecea8c3c3dd129ba4fc75 upstream
> >
> > 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/.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Schaller <misch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200925074502.150448-1-misch@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Any reason you are not signing off on this?

No, sorry:

Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dann.frazier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Easier if I send a v2?

  -dann

> :(
>



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