On 04/17/2013 09:28 PM, Luis Henriques wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 08:13:57PM +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote: >> On 04/17/2013 07:56 PM, Andy Whitcroft wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:37:43PM +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote: >>>> On 04/16/2013 06:33 PM, Luis Henriques wrote: >>>>> 68d929862e29a8b52a7f2f2f86a0600423b093cd efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables >>>> >>>> This prevents a bricking issue for some Samsung devices but causes >>>> regression on many other machines. >>>> >>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55471 >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947142 >>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/1078 >>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/47150 >>>> >>>> This patchset will fix it again: >>>> >>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/1081 >>> >>> Thanks for the pointer. I note that in that thread you yourself imply >>> there are still issues after applying them? Was that accurate, is there >>> yet further patches needed? >> >> I just find that issue. Didn't see that when writing the above. >> >> Earlier I was testing on a different machine and the result was >> good. I guess the patch still needs some more testing. > > Thanks Lingzhu. > > So, I guess you would recommend me to drop the whole series until we > have this patchset accepted, tested and back-ported for 3.5, correct? > > (I tried to isolate the one you pointed out, but I'm afraid there are > too many dependencies between them to drop a single patch.) Unfortunately yes. The whole series are mostly solving pstore bugs and pstore trashing firmware. If you want to prevent more bricking from happening asap, a temporary choice is to allow disabling efi pstore altogether with these: ed9dc8ce7a1c8115dba9483a9b51df8b63a2e0ef efivars: Allow disabling use as a pstore backend ec0971ba5372a4dfa753f232449d23a8fd98490e efivars: Add module parameter to disable use as a pstore backend ca0ba26fbbd2d81c43085df49ce0abfe34535a90 efivars: Fix check for CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html