Re: [PATCH 11/18] Hibernate: introduced RSA key-pair to verifysignature of snapshot

[Matt Fleming]

On Thu, 05 Sep, at 06:13:36PM, joeyli wrote:
> This S4WakeKey is a VOLATILE variable that could not modify by
> SetVariable() at runtime. So, it's read only even through efivars. 
> 
> Does it what your concern?
 
No, the UEFI spec probibits certain runtime functions from being
executed concurrently on separate cpus and the spinlock used in the
efivars code ensures that we adhere to that restriction. See table 31 in
section 7.1 of the UEFI 2.4 spec for the list of services that are
non-reentrant.

The problem isn't that we want to avoid simultaneous access to
S4WakeKey, it's that we can't invoke any of the variable runtime service
functions concurrently.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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