efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default
authorPeter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Mon, 8 Feb 2016 19:48:15 +0000 (14:48 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 3 Mar 2016 23:07:09 +0000 (15:07 -0800)
commit05913989c8892f6dc1726d03b0d8e680aec3c1a5
tree0e680cdee1b7db68cca0a84c2a9d0962c30fe6cb
parent5134c82b53ddd6f95317f159f62827d9cb7843e1
efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default

commit ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879 upstream.

"rm -rf" is bricking some peoples' laptops because of variables being
used to store non-reinitializable firmware driver data that's required
to POST the hardware.

These are 100% bugs, and they need to be fixed, but in the mean time it
shouldn't be easy to *accidentally* brick machines.

We have to have delete working, and picking which variables do and don't
work for deletion is quite intractable, so instead make everything
immutable by default (except for a whitelist), and make tools that
aren't quite so broad-spectrum unset the immutable flag.

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt
drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c
fs/efivarfs/file.c
fs/efivarfs/inode.c
fs/efivarfs/internal.h
fs/efivarfs/super.c
include/linux/efi.h
tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/efivarfs.sh
tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/open-unlink.c