From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:35:36 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: efivars: seek back to beginning in each efi_get_variable() loop
X-Git-Tag: v259-rc1~70^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dbc25d84aeff8e9196c002a778fbaf91d979a1b9;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

efivars: seek back to beginning in each efi_get_variable() loop

We try to read again from the beginning, hence let's seek back.
Apparently efivarfs doesn't strictly require this, but it's really weird
that it doesn't.
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diff --git a/src/basic/efivars.c b/src/basic/efivars.c
index f40c8a09e01..f54c3d22e93 100644
--- a/src/basic/efivars.c
+++ b/src/basic/efivars.c
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ int efi_get_variable(
                         return log_debug_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EBUSY), "Reading EFI variable '%s' failed even after %u tries, giving up.", p, try);
                 if (try >= EFI_N_RETRIES_NO_DELAY)
                         (void) usleep_safe(EFI_RETRY_DELAY);
+
+                /* Start from the beginning */
+                (void) lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
         }
 
         /* Unfortunately kernel reports EOF if there's an inconsistency between efivarfs var list and