On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:48:32AM -0800, Joe Konno wrote:
> We may see some other patches or RFCs about caching and/or shadowing
> variable values in efivarfs to reduce the number of direct EFI reads,
> with the goal of reducing how many SMIs are generated.
So if you do the caching scheme, the question about narrowing
permissions becomes moot...
> Any obvious EFI variables that userspace tools have come to depend on--
> those which normal, unprivileged users need to read-- are helpful inputs
> to this discussion.
... which solves the aspect of not breaking userspace nicely.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
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