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authorSeth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>2013-03-11 16:17:50 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-03-28 12:18:13 -0700
commit8a151cd68d3ce9cd8dea96e54cbff502a7f7db6b (patch)
tree6a2100116905cddeab171fe12115a12aa7fad7bf
parent341936a92e34a8651fb95fc4383704d6d7d3b304 (diff)
efivars: Add module parameter to disable use as a pstore backend
commit ec0971ba5372a4dfa753f232449d23a8fd98490e upstream. We know that with some firmware implementations writing too much data to UEFI variables can lead to bricking machines. Recent changes attempt to address this issue, but for some it may still be prudent to avoid writing large amounts of data until the solution has been proven on a wide variety of hardware. Crash dumps or other data from pstore can potentially be a large data source. Add a pstore_module parameter to efivars to allow disabling its use as a backend for pstore. Also add a config option, CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE, to allow setting the default value of this paramter to true (i.e. disabled by default). Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/Kconfig9
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efivars.c8
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
index 898023d8e486..42c759a4d047 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
@@ -62,6 +62,15 @@ config EFI_VARS_PSTORE
will allow writing console messages, crash dumps, or anything
else supported by pstore to EFI variables.
+config EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE
+ bool "Disable using efivars as a pstore backend by default"
+ depends on EFI_VARS_PSTORE
+ default n
+ help
+ Saying Y here will disable the use of efivars as a storage
+ backend for pstore by default. This setting can be overridden
+ using the efivars module's pstore_disable parameter.
+
config EFI_PCDP
bool "Console device selection via EFI PCDP or HCDP table"
depends on ACPI && EFI && IA64
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index 3e19f1196880..383474fcad3a 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ MODULE_VERSION(EFIVARS_VERSION);
*/
#define GUID_LEN 36
+static bool efivars_pstore_disable =
+ IS_ENABLED(EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE);
+
+module_param_named(pstore_disable, efivars_pstore_disable, bool, 0644);
+
/*
* The maximum size of VariableName + Data = 1024
* Therefore, it's reasonable to save that much
@@ -1926,7 +1931,8 @@ int register_efivars(struct efivars *efivars,
if (error)
unregister_efivars(efivars);
- efivar_pstore_register(efivars);
+ if (!efivars_pstore_disable)
+ efivar_pstore_register(efivars);
register_filesystem(&efivarfs_type);