Re: [RFC,PATCH v2] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem

[Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>]

Hi Matt,

> I think this is the problematic chunk of code,
>
> static int efivars_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
> {
>          struct efivar_entry *var = dentry->d_inode->i_private;
>          struct efivars *efivars = var->efivars;
>          efi_status_t status;
>
>          spin_lock(&efivars->lock);
>
>          status = efivars->ops->set_variable(var->var.VariableName,
>                                              &var->var.VendorGuid,
>                                              0, 0, NULL);
>
> For deleting authenticated variables Attributes, DataSize and Data need
> to be non-zero. I think DataSize == AuthInfo descriptor. Peter?

That's correct, but we can't use unlink to delete a secure variable, we 
need to do a write instead, in order to provide the authentication 
descriptor.

But yes, we may need to alter the efivars_file_write path so that such a 
write actually results in the dentry being removed...

Cheers,


Jeremy