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Commit ea185bde authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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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 ...
parents 76544811 e3cf2d91
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