This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
efi: Add new variable attributes
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
efi-add-new-variable-attributes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 41b3254c93acc56adc3c4477fef7c9512d47659e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:11:29 -0400
Subject: efi: Add new variable attributes
From: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
commit 41b3254c93acc56adc3c4477fef7c9512d47659e upstream.
More recent versions of the UEFI spec have added new attributes for
variables. Add them.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/efi.h | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -347,7 +347,18 @@ extern int __init efi_setup_pcdp_console
#define EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE 0x0000000000000001
#define EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS 0x0000000000000002
#define EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS 0x0000000000000004
+#define EFI_VARIABLE_HARDWARE_ERROR_RECORD 0x0000000000000008
+#define EFI_VARIABLE_AUTHENTICATED_WRITE_ACCESS 0x0000000000000010
+#define EFI_VARIABLE_TIME_BASED_AUTHENTICATED_WRITE_ACCESS 0x0000000000000020
+#define EFI_VARIABLE_APPEND_WRITE 0x0000000000000040
+#define EFI_VARIABLE_MASK (EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE | \
+ EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS | \
+ EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS | \
+ EFI_VARIABLE_HARDWARE_ERROR_RECORD | \
+ EFI_VARIABLE_AUTHENTICATED_WRITE_ACCESS | \
+
EFI_VARIABLE_TIME_BASED_AUTHENTICATED_WRITE_ACCESS | \
+ EFI_VARIABLE_APPEND_WRITE)
/*
* EFI Device Path information
*/
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/efi-add-new-variable-attributes.patch
queue-3.0/efi-validate-uefi-boot-variables.patch
queue-3.0/efivars-fix-warnings-when-config_pstore-n.patch
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