[Issue]

Currently, efi_pstore driver simply overwrites existing panic messages in NVRAM.
So, in the following scenario, we will lose 1st panic messages.
 
 1. kernel panics.
 2. efi_pstore is kicked and writes panic messages to NVRAM.
 3. system reboots.
 4. kernel panics again before a user checks the 1st panic messages in NVRAM.

[Solution]

A reasonable solution to fix the issue is just holding multiple logs without 
erasing
existing entries.

This patch freshly adds a logic erasing existing entries, which shared with a 
write callback,
to an erase callback.
To support holding multiple logs, the write callback doesn't need to erase any 
entries and
it will be removed in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.agu...@hds.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/efivars.c |   46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index 37ac21a..bee14cc 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -784,7 +784,51 @@ static int efi_pstore_write(enum pstore_type_id type,
 static int efi_pstore_erase(enum pstore_type_id type, u64 id,
                            struct pstore_info *psi)
 {
-       efi_pstore_write(type, 0, &id, (unsigned int)id, 0, psi);
+       char stub_name[DUMP_NAME_LEN];
+       efi_char16_t efi_name[DUMP_NAME_LEN];
+       efi_guid_t vendor = LINUX_EFI_CRASH_GUID;
+       struct efivars *efivars = psi->data;
+       struct efivar_entry *entry, *found = NULL;
+       int i;
+
+       sprintf(stub_name, "dump-type%u-%u-", type, (unsigned int)id);
+
+       spin_lock(&efivars->lock);
+
+       for (i = 0; i < DUMP_NAME_LEN; i++)
+               efi_name[i] = stub_name[i];
+
+       /*
+        * Clean up any entries with the same name
+        */
+
+       list_for_each_entry(entry, &efivars->list, list) {
+               get_var_data_locked(efivars, &entry->var);
+
+               if (efi_guidcmp(entry->var.VendorGuid, vendor))
+                       continue;
+               if (utf16_strncmp(entry->var.VariableName, efi_name,
+                                 utf16_strlen(efi_name)))
+                       continue;
+               /* Needs to be a prefix */
+               if (entry->var.VariableName[utf16_strlen(efi_name)] == 0)
+                       continue;
+
+               /* found */
+               found = entry;
+               efivars->ops->set_variable(entry->var.VariableName,
+                                          &entry->var.VendorGuid,
+                                          PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES,
+                                          0, NULL);
+       }
+
+       if (found)
+               list_del(&found->list);
+
+       spin_unlock(&efivars->lock);
+
+       if (found)
+               efivar_unregister(found);
 
        return 0;
 }
-- 1.7.1
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