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Merge tag 'efi-fixes-for-v6.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi
Pull EFI fixes from Ard Biesheuvel: "Another couple of EFI fixes for v6.14. Only James's patch stands out, as it implements a workaround for odd behavior in fwupd in user space, which creates EFI variables by touching a file in efivarfs, clearing the immutable bit (which gets set automatically for $reasons) and then opening it again for writing, none of which is really necessary. The fwupd author and LVFS maintainer is already rolling out a fix for this on the fwupd side, and suggested that the workaround in this PR could be backed out again during the next cycle. (There is a semantic mismatch in efivarfs where some essential variable attributes are stored in the first 4 bytes of the file, and so zero length files cannot exist, as they cannot be written back to the underlying variable store. So now, they are dropped once the last reference is released.) Summary: - Fix CPER error ...
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- drivers/firmware/efi/cper-arm.c 1 addition, 1 deletiondrivers/firmware/efi/cper-arm.c
- drivers/firmware/efi/cper-x86.c 1 addition, 1 deletiondrivers/firmware/efi/cper-x86.c
- drivers/firmware/efi/mokvar-table.c 27 additions, 30 deletionsdrivers/firmware/efi/mokvar-table.c
- fs/efivarfs/file.c 6 additions, 4 deletionsfs/efivarfs/file.c
- fs/efivarfs/super.c 2 additions, 1 deletionfs/efivarfs/super.c
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