Bug#858832: calls efibootmgr with invalid options

[Peter Palfrader]

Package: grub-efi-arm64
Version: 2.02~beta3-5
Severity: serious
User: debian-admin at lists.debian.org
Usertags: needed-by-DSA-Team

On upgrading from jessie to stretch on our arm64 box acker.debian.org I
noticed this issue with grub-efi-arm64:


acker:~# apt-get install --reinstall grub-efi-arm64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 73.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://mirror.netcologne.de/debian stretch/main arm64 grub-efi-arm64 arm64 2.02~beta3-5 [73.0 kB]
Fetched 73.0 kB in 0s (603 kB/s)          
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 62883 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../grub-efi-arm64_2.02~beta3-5_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking grub-efi-arm64 (2.02~beta3-5) over (2.02~beta3-5) ...
Setting up grub-efi-arm64 (2.02~beta3-5) ...
Installing for arm64-efi platform.
efibootmgr: option requires an argument -- 'd'
efibootmgr version 14
usage: efibootmgr [options]
        -a | --active         sets bootnum active
        -A | --inactive       sets bootnum inactive
        -b | --bootnum XXXX   modify BootXXXX (hex)
        -B | --delete-bootnum delete bootnum
        -c | --create         create new variable bootnum and add to bootorder
        -C | --create-only      create new variable bootnum and do not add to bootorder
        -D | --remove-dups      remove duplicate values from BootOrder
        -d | --disk disk       (defaults to /dev/sda) containing loader
        -r | --driver         Operate on Driver variables, not Boot Variables.
        -e | --edd [1|3|-1]   force EDD 1.0 or 3.0 creation variables, or guess
        -E | --device num      EDD 1.0 device number (defaults to 0x80)
        -g | --gpt            force disk with invalid PMBR to be treated as GPT
        -i | --iface name     create a netboot entry for the named interface
        -l | --loader name     (defaults to \EFI\redhat\grub.efi)
        -L | --label label     Boot manager display label (defaults to "Linux")
        -m | --mirror-below-4G t|f mirror memory below 4GB
        -M | --mirror-above-4G X percentage memory to mirror above 4GB
        -n | --bootnext XXXX   set BootNext to XXXX (hex)
        -N | --delete-bootnext delete BootNext
        -o | --bootorder XXXX,YYYY,ZZZZ,...     explicitly set BootOrder (hex)
        -O | --delete-bootorder delete BootOrder
        -p | --part part        (defaults to 1) containing loader
        -q | --quiet            be quiet
        -t | --timeout seconds  set boot manager timeout waiting for user input.
        -T | --delete-timeout   delete Timeout.
        -u | --unicode | --UCS-2  pass extra args as UCS-2 (default is ASCII)
        -v | --verbose          print additional information
        -V | --version          return version and exit
        -w | --write-signature  write unique sig to MBR if needed
        -y | --sysprep          Operate on SysPrep variables, not Boot Variables.
        -@ | --append-binary-args file  append extra args from file (use "-" for stdin)
        -h | --help             show help/usage
grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Operation not permitted.
Failed: grub-install --target=arm64-efi  
WARNING: Bootloader is not properly installed, system may not be bootable
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-2-arm64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-arm64
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-0.bpo.2-arm64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-0.bpo.2-arm64
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-0.bpo.2-arm64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-0.bpo.2-arm64
Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration
done
acker:~# 

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