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Previous patches enabled SetVariableRT using a RAM backend. Although EBBR [0] defines a variable format we can teach userspace tools and write the altered variables, it's better if we skip the ABI requirements completely. So let's add a new variable, in its own namespace called "VarToFile" which contains a binary dump of the updated RT, BS and, NV variables and will be updated when GetVariable is called. Some adjustments are needed to do that. Currently we discard BS-only variables in EBS(). We need to preserve those on the RAM backend that exposes the variables. Since BS-only variables can't appear at runtime we need to move the memory masking checks from efi_var_collect() to efi_get_next_variable_name_mem()/ efi_get_variable_mem() and do the filtering at runtime. We also need an efi_var_collect() variant available at runtime, in order to construct the "VarToFile" buffer on the fly. All users and applications (for linux) have to do when updating a variable is dd that variable in the file described by "RTStorageVolatile". Linux efivarfs uses a first 4 bytes of the output to represent attributes in little-endian format. So, storing variables works like this: $~ efibootmgr -n 0001 $~ dd if=/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/VarToFile-b2ac5fc9-92b7-4acd-aeac-11e818c3130c of=/boot/efi/ubootefi.var skip=4 bs=1 [0] https://arm-software.github.io/ebbr/index.html#document-chapter5-variable-storage Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> # dumping all variables to a variable Co-developed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com> # contributed on efi_var_collect_mem() Signed-off-by:
Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
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