linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] efibc: Fix excessive stack footprint warning

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Date:	Sat, 14 May 2016 20:20:47 +0100
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:	"Compostella, Jeremy" <jeremy.compostella@...el.com>
Cc:	"Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)" <elliott@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] efibc: Fix excessive stack footprint warning

On Wed, 11 May, at 05:16:24PM, Jeremy Compostella wrote:
> From 3a54e6872e220e1ac4db0eae126a20b5383dae3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jeremy Compostella <jeremy.compostella@...el.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 10:34:21 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] efibc: report more information in the error messages
> 
> Report the name of the EFI variable if the value size is too large or
> if efibc_set_variable() fails to allocate the struct efivar_entry
> object.  If efibc_set_variable() fails because the value size is too
> large, it also reports the value size in the error message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Compostella <jeremy.compostella@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efibc.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks Jeremy.