Re: [RESEND][PATCH]efi: initialize efi.runtime_version to make query_variable_info/update_capsuleworkable

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Aug 16 2012 - 17:44:21 EST


On 08/16/2012 12:53 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 18:37 +0000, Seiji Aguchi wrote:
>> A value of efi.runtime_version is checked before calling
>> update_capsule()/query_variable_info() as follows.
>> But it isn't initialized anywhere.
>> <snip>
>> static efi_status_t virt_efi_query_variable_info(u32 attr,
>> u64 *storage_space,
>> u64 *remaining_space,
>> u64 *max_variable_size) {
>> if (efi.runtime_version < EFI_2_00_SYSTEM_TABLE_REVISION)
>> return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
>> <snip>
>>
>> This patch initializes a value of efi.runtime_version at boot time.
>>
>> Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 1 +
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> Thanks, I picked this up just so it doesn't get lost. It will probably
> go to Linus via Peter Anvin.
>

Should I take that as an Acked-by: on your part?

-hpa


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