Pull request for UEFI sub-system for efi-2020-10-rc1 (2)

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sat Jul 11 14:16:22 CEST 2020


On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 09:00:16AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 7/10/20 8:09 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 06:12:02PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> >
> >> The following changes since commit 61608f395e7dcb2be6060407a72a1149b046430a:
> >>
> >>   Merge branch '2020-07-08-misc-features-and-fixes' (2020-07-08 20:20:24
> >> -0400)
> >>
> >> are available in the Git repository at:
> >>
> >>   https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-efi.git efi-2020-10-rc1-2
> >>
> >> for you to fetch changes up to f4cef8e7585c268f05a8c39e368ca115c25e40d5:
> >>
> >>   efi_selftest: adjust runtime test for variables (2020-07-09 12:08:41
> >> +0200)
> >>
> >
> > NAK.  This is reliably failing here:
> > https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/jobs/122018
> >
> > I see it passed Azure, and hasn't run through Travis yet.  Maybe it
> > needs to be run repeatedly to fail and we just got "lucky" ?
> >
> 
> Hello Tom,
> 
> you saw unreproducible results with multiple runs failing and one run
> succeeding. The reason is that when signing with sign-efi-sig-list in
> out Python tests without passing a timestamp two signatures may be in
> the same second or not.
> 
> When using the signed files to set UEFI variables a variable can only be
> overwritten by a file with a newer timestamp. But without setting
> timestamps explicitly using parameter -t passed to sign-efi-sig-list we
> have no control.
> 
> I already fixed this for some elder tests but missed to fix this for the
> merged patches from Takahiro.

Ah, thanks for the explanation.

-- 
Tom
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