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 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?

:(




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