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Message-ID: <202009231140.B4648C6@keescook>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 11:41:24 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...gle.com>,
Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] efi: pstore: disentangle from deprecated efivars
module
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 06:13:58PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The EFI pstore implementation relies on the 'efivars' abstraction,
> which encapsulates the EFI variable store in a way that can be
> overridden by other backing stores, like the Google SMI one.
>
> On top of that, the EFI pstore implementation also relies on the
> efivars.ko module, which is a separate layer built on top of the
> 'efivars' abstraction that exposes the [deprecated] sysfs entries
> for each variable that exists in the backing store.
>
> Since the efivars.ko module is deprecated, and all users appear to
> have moved to the efivarfs file system instead, let's prepare for
> its removal, by removing EFI pstore's dependency on it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
With this and the other pstore patch, do the pstore self-tests still
pass on an EFI system?
If so, please consider both:
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Thanks!
--
Kees Cook
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