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efivarfs: guid part of filenames are case-insensitive
authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Fri, 1 Feb 2013 11:02:28 +0000 (11:02 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 3 Mar 2013 22:03:40 +0000 (06:03 +0800)
commit688289c4b745c018b3449b4b4c5a2030083c8eaf
tree547b7b2971c3ed40a450559d0fd68578b4c79d6e
parent70afdfc6b4e4fec67bd07a5af56e0f8f7ecc7f46
efivarfs: guid part of filenames are case-insensitive

commit da27a24383b2b10bf6ebd0db29b325548aafecb4 upstream.

It makes no sense to treat the following filenames as unique,

VarName-abcdefab-abcd-abcd-abcd-abcdefabcdef
VarName-ABCDEFAB-ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-ABCDEFABCDEF
VarName-ABcDEfAB-ABcD-ABcD-ABcD-ABcDEfABcDEf
VarName-aBcDEfAB-aBcD-aBcD-aBcD-aBcDEfaBcDEf
... etc ...

since the guid will be converted into a binary representation, which
has no case.

Roll our own dentry operations so that we can treat the variable name
part of filenames ("VarName" in the above example) as case-sensitive,
but the guid portion as case-insensitive. That way, efivarfs will
refuse to create the above files if any one already exists.

Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/firmware/efivars.c