x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code
commit a6e4d5a03e9e3587e88aba687d8f225f4f04c792 upstream.
Let's not burden ia64 with checks in the common efivars code that we're not
writing too much data to the variable store. That kind of thing is an x86
firmware bug, plain and simple.
efi_query_variable_store() provides platforms with a wrapper in which they can
perform checks and workarounds for EFI variable storage bugs.
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
[xr: Backported to 3.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index 9b69e47..6bf8394 100644
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@
unsigned long count,
u64 *max_size,
int *reset_type);
+typedef efi_status_t efi_query_variable_store_t(u32 attributes, unsigned long size);
/*
* EFI Configuration Table and GUID definitions
@@ -503,8 +504,14 @@
extern void efi_enter_virtual_mode (void); /* switch EFI to virtual mode, if possible */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86
extern void efi_free_boot_services(void);
+extern efi_status_t efi_query_variable_store(u32 attributes, unsigned long size);
#else
static inline void efi_free_boot_services(void) {}
+
+static inline efi_status_t efi_query_variable_store(u32 attributes, unsigned long size)
+{
+ return EFI_SUCCESS;
+}
#endif
extern u64 efi_get_iobase (void);
extern u32 efi_mem_type (unsigned long phys_addr);
@@ -657,7 +664,7 @@
efi_get_variable_t *get_variable;
efi_get_next_variable_t *get_next_variable;
efi_set_variable_t *set_variable;
- efi_query_variable_info_t *query_variable_info;
+ efi_query_variable_store_t *query_variable_store;
};
struct efivars {