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From: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Tim Schumacher <timschumi@gmx.de>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] efi: pstore: Request at most 512 bytes for variable names
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:45:56 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a500ade-a91d-15f2-e5ae-7f261e6a84b4@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXEvQS8e95A55po-nKn8cGou8Dn9nNhidt_QSqL02WawpQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 15/03/2024 06:16, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> [...]
> As an aside, you really want to avoid EFI pstore in general, and
> specifically on such old systems with quirky UEFI implementations.
>

Hi Ard, this comment made me very curious; apart from old quirky UEFI
implementations, what's the reason you see to avoid using efi-pstore in
general ?

Thanks in advance for your insights!
Cheers,


Guilherme

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-03-15 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-15  0:25 [PATCH 1/3] efi: pstore: Request at most 512 bytes for variable names Tim Schumacher
2024-03-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] efivarfs: Remove unused internal struct members Tim Schumacher
2024-03-15  9:19   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-03-15 18:52     ` Tim Schumacher
2024-03-15  0:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] efi: Clear up misconceptions about a maximum variable name size Tim Schumacher
2024-03-15  9:20   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-03-15 19:45     ` Tim Schumacher
2024-03-15  9:16 ` [PATCH 1/3] efi: pstore: Request at most 512 bytes for variable names Ard Biesheuvel
2024-03-15 19:02   ` Tim Schumacher
2024-03-15 19:45   ` Guilherme G. Piccoli [this message]
2024-03-29  7:34     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-03-29 21:32       ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2024-03-28 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] " Tim Schumacher
2024-03-28 20:50   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] Documentation: Mark the 'efivars' sysfs interface as removed Tim Schumacher
2024-03-28 20:50   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] efivarfs: Remove unused internal struct members Tim Schumacher
2024-03-28 20:50   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] efi: Clear up misconceptions about a maximum variable name size Tim Schumacher
2024-03-29  7:42     ` Ard Biesheuvel

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