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    efivars: Add module parameter to disable use as a pstore backend · ec0971ba
    Seth Forshee authored
    We know that with some firmware implementations writing too much data to
    UEFI variables can lead to bricking machines. Recent changes attempt to
    address this issue, but for some it may still be prudent to avoid
    writing large amounts of data until the solution has been proven on a
    wide variety of hardware.
    
    Crash dumps or other data from pstore can potentially be a large data
    source. Add a pstore_module parameter to efivars to allow disabling its
    use as a backend for pstore. Also add a config option,
    CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE, to allow setting the default
    value of this paramter to true (i.e. disabled by default).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSeth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
    Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
    Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
    Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
    Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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