Package: src:linux
Version: 3.2.39-2
Severity: critical
Tags: upstream fixed-upstream patch
EFI can store named variables in persistant storage (i.e. flash),
which is compacted at boot. On some Samsung systems (and maybe
others), compaction fails and the system will not boot if the
variable space is more than 50% full.
The workaround for this is:
commit 7feecf3f2b587e535550bb3e7bf75b2fee06fccf
Author: Josh Boyer <jwbo...@redhat.com>
Date: Mon Mar 11 17:48:53 2013 -0400
efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables
which I backported into 3.2.41.
Ben.
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