linux-stable/drivers/firmware
Seth Forshee ec0971ba53 efivars: Add module parameter to disable use as a pstore backend
We know that with some firmware implementations writing too much data to
UEFI variables can lead to bricking machines. Recent changes attempt to
address this issue, but for some it may still be prudent to avoid
writing large amounts of data until the solution has been proven on a
wide variety of hardware.

Crash dumps or other data from pstore can potentially be a large data
source. Add a pstore_module parameter to efivars to allow disabling its
use as a backend for pstore. Also add a config option,
CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE, to allow setting the default
value of this paramter to true (i.e. disabled by default).

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-03-21 12:43:46 +00:00
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google firmware: google: fix gsmi.c build warning 2011-12-09 16:23:49 -08:00
dcdbas.c Drivers: misc: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:16 -08:00
dcdbas.h
dell_rbu.c sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks 2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
dmi-id.c dmi-id: fix a memory leak in dmi_id_init error path 2010-08-05 13:53:34 -07:00
dmi-sysfs.c firmware: Fix unaligned memory accesses in dmi-sysfs 2011-02-25 16:10:03 -08:00
dmi_scan.c dmi_scan: fix missing check for _DMI_ signature in smbios_present() 2013-03-08 15:05:34 -08:00
edd.c [SCSI] edd: Treat "XPRS" host bus type the same as "PCI" 2011-10-31 13:26:19 +04:00
efivars.c efivars: Add module parameter to disable use as a pstore backend 2013-03-21 12:43:46 +00:00
iscsi_ibft.c switch ->is_visible() to returning umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:55 -05:00
iscsi_ibft_find.c efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities 2013-01-30 11:51:59 -08:00
Kconfig efivars: Add module parameter to disable use as a pstore backend 2013-03-21 12:43:46 +00:00
Makefile ASoC: Move SigmaDSP firmware loader to ASoC 2011-11-29 12:01:10 +00:00
memmap.c memory-hotplug: remove /sys/firmware/memmap/X sysfs 2013-02-23 17:50:12 -08:00
pcdp.c pcdp: use early_ioremap/early_iounmap to access pcdp table 2012-07-30 17:25:11 -07:00
pcdp.h Update broken web addresses in the kernel. 2010-10-18 11:03:14 +02:00