efi_loader: add an EFI variable with the file contents

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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_variable_tee.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_variable_tee.c
index dde135fd9f8..4f1aa298da1 100644
--- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_variable_tee.c
+++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_variable_tee.c
@@ -959,11 +959,6 @@ void efi_variables_boot_exit_notify(void)
 		log_err("Unable to notify the MM partition for ExitBootServices\n");
 	free(comm_buf);
 
-	/*
-	 * Populate the list for runtime variables.
-	 * asking EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS is redundant, since
-	 * efi_var_mem_notify_exit_boot_services will clean those, but that's fine
-	 */
 	ret = efi_var_collect(&var_buf, &len, EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS);
 	if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS)
 		log_err("Can't populate EFI variables. No runtime variables will be available\n");