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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:50:11 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc: Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
"shiqiang.deng" <shiqiang.deng213@...il.com>,
Sebastian Grzywna <swiftgeek@...il.com>,
Hang Zhang <zh.nvgt@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ACPI: Drop the custom_method debugfs interface
On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 05:38:55PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
>
> The ACPI custom_method debugfs interface is security-sensitive and
> concurrent access to it is broken [1].
>
> Moreover, the recipe for preparing a customized version of a given
> control method has changed at one point due to ACPICA changes, which
> has not been reflected in its documentation, so whoever used it before
> has had to adapt and it had gone unnoticed for a long time.
>
> This interface was a bad idea to start with and its implementation is
> fragile at the design level. It's been always conceptually questionable,
> problematic from the security standpoint and implemented poorly.
>
> Patches fixing its most apparent functional issues (for example, [2]) don't
> actually address much of the above.
>
> Granted, at the time it was introduced, there was no alternative, but
> there is the AML debugger in the kernel now and there is the configfs
> interface allowing custom ACPI tables to be loaded. The former can be
> used for extensive AML debugging and the latter can be use for testing
> new AML. [3]
>
> Accordingly, drop custom_method along with its (outdated anyway)
> documentation.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20221227063335.61474-1-zh.nvgt@gmail.com/ # [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20231111132402.4142-1-shiqiang.deng213@gmail.com/ [2]
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62849113/how-to-unload-an-overlay-loaded-using-acpi-config-sysfs # [3]
I believe you missed Link: tags for 2 and 3.
> Reported-by: Hang Zhang <zh.nvgt@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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