diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9e453c3ad..482a4ad74 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ linux (3.10-1~exp1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * [rt] genpatch.py: Add Origin header to all patches
   * debian/bin/check-patches.sh: Report missing DEP-3 headers
   * alx: Use upstream minimal driver
+  * [x86] efivars: Reenable 'paranoid' size check by default, as it should
+    no longer have false positives
 
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:58:08 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/patches/debian/efivars-remove-check-for-50-full-on-write.patch b/debian/patches/debian/efivars-remove-check-for-50-full-on-write.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d5cae1c85..000000000
--- a/debian/patches/debian/efivars-remove-check-for-50-full-on-write.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
-Subject: efivars: Remove check for 50% full on write
-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:18:42 +0000
-Forwarded: no
-
-On my EFI-booting system (AMI firmware/Asus board), the firmware does
-not garbage-collect the variable store until it is rather more than
-50% full, and it also updates a variable at every boot.  This check
-means that variable writes are guaranteed to fail after the system has
-booted more than a few hundred times.
-
-Since pstore integration is now disabled by default in Debian, we will
-not normally write that much data before rebooting and giving the
-firmware a chance to garbage-collect the variable store.  Therefore,
-until the check can be restricted to known-bad systems, it seems less
-risky to disable it for now.
-
----
---- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
-+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
-@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static int __init setup_add_efi_memmap(c
- }
- early_param("add_efi_memmap", setup_add_efi_memmap);
- 
--static bool efi_no_storage_paranoia;
-+static bool efi_no_storage_paranoia = true;
- 
- static int __init setup_storage_paranoia(char *arg)
- {
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 7046ce271..b8341d866 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ features/all/xen/microcode-api-update.patch
 
 debian/radeon-firmware-is-required-for-drm-and-kms-on-r600-onward.patch
 debian/efi-autoload-efivars.patch
-debian/efivars-remove-check-for-50-full-on-write.patch
 debian/cdc_ncm-cdc_mbim-use-ncm-by-default.patch
 debian/powerpcspe-omit-uimage.patch