Re: [PATCH v3 08/24] powerpc/secvar: Allow backend to populate static list of variable names

Nicholas Piggin
2023-01-19T01:11:40Z

On Wed Jan 18, 2023 at 4:10 PM AEST, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> Currently, the list of variables is populated by calling
> secvar_ops->get_next() repeatedly, which is explicitly modelled on the
> OPAL API (including the keylen parameter).
>
> For the upcoming PLPKS backend, we have a static list of variable names.
> It is messy to fit that into get_next(), so instead, let the backend put
> a NULL-terminated array of variable names into secvar_ops->var_names,
> which will be used if get_next() is undefined.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
>
> ---
>
> v3: New patch (ajd/mpe)
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/secvar.h | 4 ++
> arch/powerpc/kernel/secvar-sysfs.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
> 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/secvar.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/secvar.h
> index ebf95386d720..c8bee1834b54 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/secvar.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/secvar.h
> @@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ struct secvar_operations {
> ssize_t (*format)(char *buf);
> int (*max_size)(u64 *max_size);
> const struct attribute **config_attrs;
> +
> + // NULL-terminated array of fixed variable names
> + // Only used if get_next() isn't provided
> + const char * const *var_names;

The other way you could go is provide a sysfs_init() ops call here,
and export the add_var as a library function that backends can use.

Thanks,
Nick