Without this patch efivarfs_alloc_dentry creates dentries with slashes in
their name if the respective EFI variable has slashes in its name. This in
turn causes EIO on getdents64, which prevents a complete directory listing
of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.
This patch replaces the invalid shlashes with exclamation marks like
kobject_set_name_vargs does for /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ to have consistently
named dentries under /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ and /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.
---
fs/efivarfs/super.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
index 28bb5689333a..15880a68faad 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
@@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ static int efivarfs_callback(efi_char16_t *name16,
efi_guid_t vendor,
name[len + EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN+1] = '\0';
+ /* replace invalid slashes like kobject_set_name_vargs does for
/sys/firmware/efi/vars. */
+ strreplace(name, '/', '!');
+
inode = efivarfs_get_inode(sb, d_inode(root), S_IFREG | 0644, 0,
is_removable);
if (!inode)
--
2.28.0.681.g6f77f65b4e-goog
