Re: [PATCH] efi: replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC

[Saurabh Sengar]

>It's slightly winding code, but if you look at the callers of
>efivar_init() you'll see that none of them set both 'atomic' and
>'duplicates', so dup_variable_bug() will never be called while holding
>a spinlock.

>Or am I missing something?

I was assuming that there could be a possibility when both 'atomic' and 'duplicates' are set.
If both can never be set, then this patch does not make any sense, you are correct.
Thank you for review
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