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-rw-r--r--include/efi_loader.h3
-rw-r--r--include/efi_variable.h8
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/efi_loader.h b/include/efi_loader.h
index 0ebc80e0af0..3a4d502631c 100644
--- a/include/efi_loader.h
+++ b/include/efi_loader.h
@@ -1148,6 +1148,9 @@ struct pkcs7_message *efi_parse_pkcs7_header(const void *buf,
/* runtime implementation of memcpy() */
void efi_memcpy_runtime(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n);
+/* runtime implementation of memcmp() */
+int efi_memcmp_runtime(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n);
+
/* commonly used helper functions */
u16 *efi_create_indexed_name(u16 *buffer, size_t buffer_size, const char *name,
unsigned int index);
diff --git a/include/efi_variable.h b/include/efi_variable.h
index fc1184e5ca1..c3229c717d8 100644
--- a/include/efi_variable.h
+++ b/include/efi_variable.h
@@ -216,6 +216,11 @@ void efi_var_mem_del(struct efi_var_entry *var);
* The variable is appended without checking if a variable of the same name
* already exists. The two data buffers are concatenated.
*
+ * When @changep is non-NULL and @size2 is 0, the function compares the new
+ * value against an existing variable with the same name and vendor. If
+ * attributes and data are identical the insertion is skipped and *@changep
+ * is set to false, avoiding superfluous writes.
+ *
* @variable_name: variable name
* @vendor: GUID
* @attributes: variable attributes
@@ -224,13 +229,14 @@ void efi_var_mem_del(struct efi_var_entry *var);
* @size2: size of the second data field
* @data2: second data buffer
* @time: time of authentication (as seconds since start of epoch)
+ * @changep: pointer to change flag (may be NULL)
* Result: status code
*/
efi_status_t efi_var_mem_ins(const u16 *variable_name,
const efi_guid_t *vendor, u32 attributes,
const efi_uintn_t size1, const void *data1,
const efi_uintn_t size2, const void *data2,
- const u64 time);
+ const u64 time, bool *changep);
/**
* efi_var_mem_free() - determine free memory for variables