Fail to add UEFI boot entry on some Lenovo notebooks

[Anthony Wong]

Tried UEFI Shell command:
Shell> bcfg boot add 3 fs0:\EFI\boot\bootxx64.efi "test"

F11's Boot Menu cannot show the test entry.

Run "sudo fwts uefivarinfo -" will give this error:

Test 1 of 1: UEFI variable info query.
UEFI NVRAM storage:
  Maximum storage: 73708 bytes
  Remaining storage: 59812 bytes
  Maximum variable size: 40920 bytes
Variable is larger than maximum variable length.
Return status: EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL. The buffer is not large enough to hold the
requested data. The required buffer size is returned in the appropriate
parameter when this error occurs.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Linux 3.8.6

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-quantal-needed' to 'verification-quantal-done'.

If verification is not done by one week from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Hui Wang (hui.wang)]

perform test on the lenovo notebook, the new kernel fix this problem. So set it to "fixed"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.5.0-41.64

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linux (3.5.0-41.64) quantal; urgency=low

  [Brad Figg]

  * Release Tracking Bug
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  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * kernel-doc: bugfix - multi-line macros
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  * Revert "zram: use zram->lock to protect zram_free_page() in swap free
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  * x86 thermal: Disable power limit notification interrupt by default
    - LP: #1215748
  * ARM: 7810/1: perf: Fix array out of bounds access in
    armpmu_map_hw_event()
    - LP: #1216442
    - CVE-2013-4254
  * ARM: 7809/1: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders
    - LP: #1216442
    - CVE-2013-4254
  * veth: reduce stat overhead
    - LP: #1201869
  * veth: extend device features
    - LP: #1201869
  * veth: avoid a NULL deref in veth_stats_one
    - LP: #1201869
  * veth: fix a NULL deref in netif_carrier_off
    - LP: #1201869
  * veth: fix NULL dereference in veth_dellink()
    - LP: #1201869
  * Bluetooth: Add support for Atheros [0cf3:3121]
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  * efivars: explicitly calculate length of VariableName
    - LP: #1217745
  * xfs: fix _xfs_buf_find oops on blocks beyond the filesystem end
    - LP: #1151527
    - CVE-2013-1819
  * drm/i915/lvds: ditch ->prepare special case
    - LP: #1221791
  * serial: mxs: fix buffer overflow
    - LP: #1221791
  * fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix buffer overflow in add_page_map()
    - LP: #1221791
  * af_key: initialize satype in key_notify_policy_flush()
    - LP: #1221791
  * vm: add no-mmu vm_iomap_memory() stub
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  * iwl4965: set power mode early
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  * ASoC: cs42l52: Reorder Min/Max and update to SX_TLV for Beep Volume
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  * can: pcan_usb: fix wrong memcpy() bytes length
    - LP: #1221791
  * ALSA: 6fire: make buffers DMA-able (pcm)
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  * ALSA: 6fire: make buffers DMA-able (midi)
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  * jbd2: Fix use after free after error in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()
    - LP: #1221791
  * USB-Serial: Fix error handling of usb_wwan
    - LP: #1221791
  * USB: mos7840: fix big-endian probe
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  * USB: adutux: fix big-endian device-type reporting
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  * USB: ti_usb_3410_5052: fix big-endian firmware handling
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    - LP: #1221791
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  * usb: add two quirky touchscreen
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  * MIPS: Expose missing pci_io{map,unmap} declarations
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  * alpha: makefile: don't enforce small data model for kernel builds
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