[PATCH 2/4] fs: define a firmware security filesystem named fwsecurityfs

Andrew Donnellan ajd at linux.ibm.com
Mon Dec 12 00:58:56 UTC 2022


On Wed, 2022-11-23 at 13:57 -0500, Nayna wrote:
> 
> Given there are no other exploiters for fwsecurityfs and there should
> be 
> no platform-specific fs, would modifying sysfs now to let userspace 
> create files cleanly be the way forward? Or, if we should strongly 
> consider securityfs, which would result in updating securityfs to
> allow 
> userspace creation of files and then expose variables via a more 
> platform-specific directory /sys/kernel/security/pks? We want to pick
> the best available option and would find some hints on direction
> helpful 
> before we develop the next patch.

Ping - it would be helpful for us to know your thoughts on this.


Andrew

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