[kernel] Patch to fix efivarfs underflow from Lingzhu Xiang (rhbz 888163)
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 7 16:25:53 UTC 2013
commit fd89f36b90d433790003bbac221799483e0091e4
Author: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
Date: Mon Jan 7 11:25:41 2013 -0500
Patch to fix efivarfs underflow from Lingzhu Xiang (rhbz 888163)
efivarfs-nlink-fix.patch | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel.spec | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/efivarfs-nlink-fix.patch b/efivarfs-nlink-fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4216586
--- /dev/null
+++ b/efivarfs-nlink-fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+efivarfs_unlink() should drop the file's link count, not the directory's.
+
+Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee at suse.com>
+Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang at redhat.com>
+---
+ drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 2 +-
+ 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+index d6b8d2f..60f5324 100644
+--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
++++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+@@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ static int efivarfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
+ list_del(&var->list);
+ spin_unlock(&efivars->lock);
+ efivar_unregister(var);
+- drop_nlink(dir);
++ drop_nlink(dentry->d_inode);
+ dput(dentry);
+ return 0;
+ }
+--
+1.7.7.6
+
diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index b666bc8..671d805 100644
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -687,6 +687,7 @@ Patch800: linux-2.6-crash-driver.patch
# secure boot
Patch1000: secure-boot-20130104.patch
+Patch1001: efivarfs-nlink-fix.patch
# virt + ksm patches
@@ -1392,6 +1393,7 @@ ApplyPatch linux-2.6-e1000-ich9-montevina.patch
# secure boot
ApplyPatch secure-boot-20130104.patch
+ApplyPatch efivarfs-nlink-fix.patch
# Assorted Virt Fixes
@@ -2308,6 +2310,9 @@ fi
# ||----w |
# || ||
%changelog
+* Mon Jan 07 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
+- Patch to fix efivarfs underflow from Lingzhu Xiang (rhbz 888163)
+
* Sat Jan 5 2013 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org>
- Initial update of ARM configs for 3.8
- Enable DRM driver for tegra
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