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2016-02-10efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by defaultPeter Jones1-0/+7
"rm -rf" is bricking some peoples' laptops because of variables being used to store non-reinitializable firmware driver data that's required to POST the hardware. These are 100% bugs, and they need to be fixed, but in the mean time it shouldn't be easy to *accidentally* brick machines. We have to have delete working, and picking which variables do and don't work for deletion is quite intractable, so instead make everything immutable by default (except for a whitelist), and make tools that aren't quite so broad-spectrum unset the immutable flag. Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com> Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
2012-10-30efivarfs: Add documentation for the EFI variable filesystemMatt Fleming1-0/+16
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>