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-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
index 833cbb995dd3..5b9dc26e6bcb 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
@@ -162,7 +162,15 @@ static ssize_t efi_pstore_read(struct pstore_record *record)
efi_status_t status;
for (;;) {
- varname_size = 1024;
+ /*
+ * A small set of old UEFI implementations reject sizes
+ * above a certain threshold, the lowest seen in the wild
+ * is 512.
+ *
+ * TODO: Commonize with the iteration implementation in
+ * fs/efivarfs to keep all the quirks in one place.
+ */
+ varname_size = 512;
/*
* If this is the first read() call in the pstore enumeration,