Re: [PATCH 11/18] Hibernate: introduced RSA key-pair to verifysignature of snapshot

From: joeyli
Date: Thu Sep 05 2013 - 06:13:08 EST


Hi Matt,

First, thanks for your review!

æ åï2013-09-05 æ 09:53 +0100ïMatt Fleming æåï
> On Thu, 22 Aug, at 07:01:50PM, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> > +static int efi_status_to_err(efi_status_t status)
> > +{
> > + int err;
> > +
> > + switch (status) {
> > + case EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER:
> > + err = -EINVAL;
> > + break;
> > + case EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES:
> > + err = -ENOSPC;
> > + break;
> > + case EFI_DEVICE_ERROR:
> > + err = -EIO;
> > + break;
> > + case EFI_WRITE_PROTECTED:
> > + err = -EROFS;
> > + break;
> > + case EFI_SECURITY_VIOLATION:
> > + err = -EACCES;
> > + break;
> > + case EFI_NOT_FOUND:
> > + err = -ENODATA;
> > + break;
> > + default:
> > + err = -EINVAL;
> > + }
> > +
> > + return err;
> > +}
>
> Please don't reimplement this. Instead make the existing function
> global.
>

OK, I will make the function to global.

> [...]
>
> > +static void *load_wake_key_data(unsigned long *datasize)
> > +{
> > + u32 attr;
> > + void *wkey_data;
> > + efi_status_t status;
> > +
> > + if (!efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES))
> > + return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
> > +
> > + /* obtain the size */
> > + *datasize = 0;
> > + status = efi.get_variable(EFI_S4_WAKE_KEY_NAME, &EFI_HIBERNATE_GUID,
> > + NULL, datasize, NULL);
> > + if (status != EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL) {
> > + wkey_data = ERR_PTR(efi_status_to_err(status));
> > + pr_err("PM: Couldn't get wake key data size: 0x%lx\n", status);
> > + goto error;
> > + }
>
> Is it safe to completely bypass the efivars interface and access
> efi.get_variable() directly? I wouldn't have thought so, unless you can
> guarantee that the kernel isn't going to access any of the EFI runtime
> services while you execute this function.
>

This S4WakeKey is a VOLATILE variable that could not modify by
SetVariable() at runtime. So, it's read only even through efivars.

Does it what your concern?


Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee

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