[PATCH 2/2] efivars: Implement no_storage_paranoia parameter

[Richard Weinberger]

Using this parameter one can disable the storage_size/2 check if
he is really sure that the UEFI does sane gc.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
---
 drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index 60c9899..0926471 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -105,8 +105,10 @@ MODULE_VERSION(EFIVARS_VERSION);
 
 static bool efivars_pstore_disable =
 	IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE);
+static bool efivars_no_storage_paranoia;
 
 module_param_named(pstore_disable, efivars_pstore_disable, bool, 0644);
+module_param_named(no_storage_paranoia, efivars_no_storage_paranoia, bool, 0644);
 
 /*
  * The maximum size of VariableName + Data = 1024
@@ -453,7 +455,10 @@ check_var_size_locked(struct efivars *efivars, u32 attributes,
 		printk_once(KERN_ERR FW_BUG "Broken EFI implementation is returning MaxVariableSize=0\n");
 
 	if (!storage_size || size > remaining_size ||
-	    (max_size && size > max_size) ||
+	    (max_size && size > max_size))
+		return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES;
+
+	if (!efivars_no_storage_paranoia &&
 	    (remaining_size - size) < (storage_size / 2))
 		return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES;
 
-- 
1.8.1.4

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