linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] Couple of efivarfs fixes

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Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 12:49:03 -0700
From:   Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Cc:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>,
        Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Couple of efivarfs fixes

1) Some apps want to monitor changes in EFI variables, but reading the
   file and comparing is inefficient.  Just have Linnux update the
   modification time when a file is written

2) A rate limited read can return -EINTR ... very suprising to apps.

Tony Luck (2):
  efivarfs: Update inode modification time for successful writes
  efivarfs: Don't return -EINTR when rate-limiting reads

 fs/efivarfs/file.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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