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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> |
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