[U-Boot] [PATCH] efi_loader: Disable env_save() call on boot

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Thu Oct 19 21:23:50 UTC 2017


With the introduction of EFI variable support, we also wanted to persist
these EFI variables. However, the way it was implemented we ended up
persisting all U-Boot environment variables on every EFI boot.

That could potentially lead to unexpected side effects because variables
that were not supposed to be written to persisted env get written. It also
means we may end up writing the environment more often than we should.

For this release, let's just disable EFI variable persistence and instead
implement it properly for the next one.

Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
Fixes: ad644e7c182 ("efi_loader: efi variable support")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
---
 lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c
index f627340de4..743b84864f 100644
--- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c
+++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c
@@ -1439,10 +1439,7 @@ static efi_status_t EFIAPI efi_exit_boot_services(void *image_handle,
 	/* Make sure that notification functions are not called anymore */
 	efi_tpl = TPL_HIGH_LEVEL;
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV) && !defined(CONFIG_ENV_IS_NOWHERE)
-	/* save any EFI variables that have been written: */
-	env_save();
-#endif
+	/* XXX Should persist EFI variables here */
 
 	board_quiesce_devices();
 
-- 
2.12.3



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