Re: [PATCH RFC v1 5/6] efi: efivarfs: prohibit reading random seed variables

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On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 8:42 PM James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It would be nice if they could be boot services only ... then they
> disappear naturally, but that would mean the rng would have to
> initialize and save in the EFI stub before ExitBootServices, which
> doesn't seem practical.

That would be nice, but the whole idea is it gets updated by Linux's
RNG, so that won't work. `boot|runtime` it is, then.

Jason



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