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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] efivarfs: always register filesystem
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:23:18AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> (cc Peter, Heinrich)
>
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 17:45, Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > The efivar ops are typically registered at subsys init time so that
> > they are available when efivarfs is registered at module init time.
> >
> > Other efivars implementations, such as Google SMI, exists and can
> > currently be build as modules which means that efivar may not be
> > available when efivarfs is initialised.
> >
> > Move the efivar availability check from module init to when the
> > filesystem is mounted to allow late registration of efivars.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org>
>
> I think this change is fine in principle, but I 'm not sure if there
> is user space code that the distros are carrying that might get
> confused by this: beforehand, efivarfs would not exist in
> /proc/filesystems and now, it will but trying to mount it might fail.

User space must already handle mount failing since commit 483028edacab
("efivars: respect EFI_UNSUPPORTED return from firmware") so that should
not be an issue.

Johan

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