efi_pstore: Add a format check for an existing variable name at reading time
authorSeiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:28:50 +0000 (20:28 +0000)
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:08:30 +0000 (16:08 -0800)
commit0f7de85a94de553c6cb222b70ac4032d265b362d
tree9d9dbb7ade849ef391c2464393531c44c1d2e15e
parent755d4fe46529018ae45bc7c86df682de45ace764
efi_pstore: Add a format check for an existing variable name at reading time

[Issue]

a format of variable name has been updated to type, id, count and ctime
to support holding multiple logs.

Format of current variable name
  dump-type0-1-2-12345678

  type:0
  id:1
  count:2
  ctime:12345678

On the other hand, if an old variable name before being updated
remains, users can't read it via /dev/pstore.

Format of old variable name
  dump-type0-1-12345678

  type:0
  id:1
  ctime:12345678

[Solution]

This patch add a format check for the old variable name in a read callback
to make it readable.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
drivers/firmware/efivars.c