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SubjectRe: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code
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On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 15:05 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote:

> One other data point is if the query_variable_info call is hacked to
> remove one of the EFI flags (ie comment out EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS)
> the efi_call_phys4() call fails with EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER and
> the system boots. Of course it does not create /sys/firmware/efivars
> entries and complains "[Firmware Bug]: efi: Inconsistent initial sizes".
> But at least it boots.

EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS is only legal if
EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS is set, so it's correct to throw
EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER there.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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