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| author | Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> | 2016-02-08 14:48:15 -0500 |
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| committer | Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> | 2016-02-10 16:25:52 +0000 |
| commit | ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879 (patch) | |
| tree | 1dcd2e49cc432ae312677ec47453ec3abc18f1d2 /include | |
| parent | 8282f5d9c17fe15a9e658c06e3f343efae1a2a2f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879.tar.gz lwn-ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879.zip | |
efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default
"rm -rf" is bricking some peoples' laptops because of variables being
used to store non-reinitializable firmware driver data that's required
to POST the hardware.
These are 100% bugs, and they need to be fixed, but in the mean time it
shouldn't be easy to *accidentally* brick machines.
We have to have delete working, and picking which variables do and don't
work for deletion is quite intractable, so instead make everything
immutable by default (except for a whitelist), and make tools that
aren't quite so broad-spectrum unset the immutable flag.
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/efi.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h index 16ca611aabc8..47be3ad7d3e5 100644 --- a/include/linux/efi.h +++ b/include/linux/efi.h @@ -1201,6 +1201,8 @@ struct efivar_entry *efivar_entry_find(efi_char16_t *name, efi_guid_t guid, bool efivar_validate(efi_guid_t vendor, efi_char16_t *var_name, u8 *data, unsigned long data_size); +bool efivar_variable_is_removable(efi_guid_t vendor, const char *name, + size_t len); extern struct work_struct efivar_work; void efivar_run_worker(void); |