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Date:	Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:37:43 +0800
From:	Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@...hat.com>
To:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
CC:	Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@....com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@...e.com>,
	"kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com" <kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com>,
	Michael Schroeder <mls@...e.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 097/102] efivars: explicitly calculate length of VariableName

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

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