Re: [PATCH 1/1] efi/efi_test: read RuntimeServicesSupported

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
To: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Ivan Hu <ivan.hu@canonical.com>,
	linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	fwts-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] efi/efi_test: read RuntimeServicesSupported
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 14:01:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMj1kXERVcY5myjAxSgqVf99Pr10utyoQF4N=06508cXd9EEPQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb31dcbe-cf19-64c5-daa0-5eb84f1a3583@gmx.de>

On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 at 11:16, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 11/27/20 8:20 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> > Since the UEFI 2.8A specification the UEFI enabled firmware provides a
> > configuration table EFI_RT_PROPERTIES_TABLE which indicates which runtime
> > services are enabled. The EFI stub reads this table and saves the value of
> > the field RuntimeServicesSupported internally.
> >
> > The Firmware Test Suite requires the value to determine if UEFI runtime
> > services are correctly implemented.
> >
> > With this patch an IOCTL call is provided to read the value of the field
> > RuntimeServicesSupported, e.g.
> >
> >      #define EFI_RUNTIME_GET_SUPPORTED_MASK \
> >              _IOR('p', 0x0C, unsigned int)
> >      unsigned int mask;
> >      fd = open("/dev/efi_test", O_RDWR);
> >      ret = ioctl(fd, EFI_RUNTIME_GET_SUPPORTED_MASK, &mask);
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
>
> Hello Ard,
>
> the patch has now been admitted to Linus' branch.
>
> Could we, please, have this patch applied to the 5.10 long term release,
> too.
>

If you think this patch needs to go to -stable, please send an email
to stable@vger.kernel.org containing the commit title and SHA1, and a
short motivation why this patch needs to be backported.

If the stable maintainers are willing to take it, I won't object to it.

Thanks,
Ard.