| Message ID | 1458642373-2901-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com |
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diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c index ab68e57172aa..4e2f46938bf0 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c @@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ static const struct variable_validate variable_validate[] = { { EFI_GLOBAL_VARIABLE_GUID, "OsIndications", NULL }, { EFI_GLOBAL_VARIABLE_GUID, "PlatformLang", validate_ascii_string }, { EFI_GLOBAL_VARIABLE_GUID, "Timeout", validate_uint16 }, + { LINUX_EFI_CRASH_GUID, "*", NULL }, { NULL_GUID, "", NULL }, };
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled efi: Add pstore variables to the deletion whitelist to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt26. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From 6a8da899a04c2a6ccce320b4e8c5d741c3f5041f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:34:05 +0000 Subject: efi: Add pstore variables to the deletion whitelist commit e246eb568bc4cbbdd8a30a3c11151ff9b7ca7312 upstream. Laszlo explains why this is a good idea, 'This is because the pstore filesystem can be backed by UEFI variables, and (for example) a crash might dump the last kilobytes of the dmesg into a number of pstore entries, each entry backed by a separate UEFI variable in the above GUID namespace, and with a variable name according to the above pattern. Please see "drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c". While this patch series will not prevent the user from deleting those UEFI variables via the pstore filesystem (i.e., deleting a pstore fs entry will continue to delete the backing UEFI variable), I think it would be nice to preserve the possibility for the sysadmin to delete Linux-created UEFI variables that carry portions of the crash log, *without* having to mount the pstore filesystem.' There's also no chance of causing machines to become bricked by deleting these variables, which is the whole purpose of excluding things from the whitelist. Use the LINUX_EFI_CRASH_GUID guid and a wildcard '*' for the match so that we don't have to update the string in the future if new variable name formats are created for crash dump variables. Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Tested-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> --- drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)