This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-efi-implement-efi_no_storage_paranoia-parameter.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 2a068400fcef7b1563d60f294b584b728236307f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:00:53 +0200
Subject: x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
commit 8c58bf3eec3b8fc8162fe557e9361891c20758f2 upstream.
Using this parameter one can disable the storage_size/2 check if
he is really sure that the UEFI does sane gc and fulfills the spec.
This parameter is useful if a devices uses more than 50% of the
storage by default.
The Intel DQSW67 desktop board is such a sucker for exmaple.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -773,6 +773,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
edd= [EDD]
Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
+ efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
+ Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
+ your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
+ you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
+ fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
+
eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ static int __init setup_add_efi_memmap(c
}
early_param("add_efi_memmap", setup_add_efi_memmap);
+static bool efi_no_storage_paranoia;
+
+static int __init setup_storage_paranoia(char *arg)
+{
+ efi_no_storage_paranoia = true;
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("efi_no_storage_paranoia", setup_storage_paranoia);
+
static efi_status_t virt_efi_get_time(efi_time_t *tm, efi_time_cap_t *tc)
{
@@ -984,7 +993,10 @@ efi_status_t efi_query_variable_store(u3
" is returning MaxVariableSize=0\n");
if (!storage_size || size > remaining_size ||
- (max_size && size > max_size) ||
+ (max_size && size > max_size))
+ return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES;
+
+ if (!efi_no_storage_paranoia &&
(remaining_size - size) < (storage_size / 2))
return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from richard@xxxxxx are
queue-3.4/x86-efi-implement-efi_no_storage_paranoia-parameter.patch
queue-3.4/x86-efi-check-max_size-only-if-it-is-non-zero.patch
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