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commit 483028edacab374060d93955382b4865a9e07cba upstream. As per UEFI spec 2.8B section 8.2, EFI_UNSUPPORTED may be returned by EFI variable runtime services if no variable storage is supported by firmware. In this case, there is no point for kernel to continue efivars initialization. That said, efivar_init() should fail by returning an error code, so that efivarfs will not be mounted on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars at all. Otherwise, user space like efibootmgr will be confused by the EFIVARFS_MAGIC seen there, while EFI variable calls cannot be made successfully. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.10+ Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.