Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:56:41 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SPI LPC information kernel module |
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 07:59:32PM -0300, Daniel Gutson wrote: > This kernel module exports configuration attributes for the > system SPI chip. > This initial version exports the BIOS Write Enable (bioswe), > BIOS Lock Enable (ble), and the SMM Bios Write Protect (SMM_BWP) > fields of the Bios Control register. The idea is to keep adding more > flags, not only from the BC but also from other registers in following > versions. > > The goal is that the attributes are avilable to fwupd when SecureBoot > is turned on. > > A technical note: I check if *ppos == BUFFER_SIZE in the reading function > to exit early and avoid an extra access to the HW, for example when using > the 'cat' command, which causes two read operations.
Why not use the simple_* functions which should prevent that type of thing?
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Gutson <daniel.gutson@eclypsium.com> > --- > Documentation/ABI/stable/securityfs-spi-lpc | 23 +
Why is this going in securityfs at all? Why not just sysfs as it is a CPU attribute, right?
> MAINTAINERS | 6 + > drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1 + > drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/misc/spi_lpc/Kconfig | 20 + > drivers/misc/spi_lpc/Makefile | 8 + > drivers/misc/spi_lpc/bios_data_access.c | 559 +++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/misc/spi_lpc/bios_data_access.h | 181 +++++++ > drivers/misc/spi_lpc/low_level_access.c | 59 ++ > drivers/misc/spi_lpc/low_level_access.h | 21 + > drivers/misc/spi_lpc/spi_lpc_main.c | 176 ++++++ > drivers/misc/spi_lpc/viddid_arch_map.c | 566 ++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/misc/spi_lpc/viddid_arch_map.h | 17 + > 13 files changed, 1638 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/stable/securityfs-spi-lpc > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/spi_lpc/Kconfig > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/spi_lpc/Makefile > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/spi_lpc/bios_data_access.c > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/spi_lpc/bios_data_access.h > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/spi_lpc/low_level_access.c > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/spi_lpc/low_level_access.h > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/spi_lpc/spi_lpc_main.c > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/spi_lpc/viddid_arch_map.c > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/spi_lpc/viddid_arch_map.h > > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/securityfs-spi-lpc b/Documentation/ABI/stable/securityfs-spi-lpc > new file mode 100644 > index 000000000000..22660a7fd914 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/securityfs-spi-lpc > @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ > +What: /sys/kernel/security/firmware/bioswe > +Date: June 2020 > +KernelVersion: 5.8.0 > +Contact: daniel.gutson@eclypsium.com > +Description: If the system firmware set BIOS Write Enable. > + 0: writes disabled, 1: writes enabled.
THis is very x86-specific, what about ARM/MIPS/anything else? Perhaps a cpu/arch-specific thing instead?
Again, which makes it seem like securityfs is not the thing for this, as it describes the hardware, not a security model which is what securityfs has been for in the past, right?
thanks,
greg k-h
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