Re: [PATCH 2/4] fs: define a firmware security filesystem named fwsecurityfs

[Nayna <nayna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 11/22/22 18:21, Nayna wrote:
>
> From the perspective of our use case, we need to expose firmware 
> security objects to userspace for management. Not all of the objects 
> pre-exist and we would like to allow root to create them from userspace.
>
> From a unification perspective, I have considered a common location at 
> /sys/firmware/security for managing any platform's security objects. 
> And I've proposed a generic filesystem, which could be used by any 
> platform to represent firmware security objects via 
> /sys/firmware/security.
>
> Here are some alternatives to generic filesystem in discussion:
>
> 1. Start with a platform-specific filesystem. If more platforms would 
> like to use the approach, it can be made generic. We would still have 
> a common location of /sys/firmware/security and new code would live in 
> arch. This is my preference and would be the best fit for our use case.
>
> 2. Use securityfs.  This would mean modifying it to satisfy other use 
> cases, including supporting userspace file creation. I don't know if 
> the securityfs maintainer would find that acceptable. I would also 
> still want some way to expose variables at /sys/firmware/security.
>
> 3. Use a sysfs-based approach. This would be a platform-specific 
> implementation. However, sysfs has a similar issue to securityfs for 
> file creation. When I tried it in RFC v1[1], I had to implement a 
> workaround to achieve that.
>
> [1] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20220122005637.28199-3-nayna@linux.ibm.com/
>
Hi Greg,

Based on the discussions so far, is Option 1, described above, an 
acceptable next step?

Thanks & Regards,

       - Nayna