[Bug 1892792] Re: grub-install fails due to uninitialized variable

[Brian Murray]

Hello dann, or anyone else affected,

Accepted efivar into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/efivar/37-2ubuntu2.2
in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: efivar (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-focal

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Title:
  grub-install fails due to uninitialized variable

Status in efivar package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in efivar source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  grub-install can fail, either by segfaulting or reporting an Internal Error.

  [Test Case]
  The issue is due to an uninitialized variable, so reproducing it is somewhat unpredictable (depends what randomness is in memory). However, a user seems to have a reliable reproduction setup as reported in LP: #1904226.

  [Fix]
  This upstream patch fixes it:
  https://github.com/rhboot/efivar/commit/5dc12cc56c79d293cf68d12a0b84373a785745e7

  [Where problems could occur]
  Most likely a problem with this fix would have little to do with the fix itself (which is simple/obvious), so I'll just state the usual issues/problems that can occur with upgrading packages (e.g. disk too full to unpack, etc).

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