Re: [PATCH] Revert "firmware: dmi_scan: Use lowercase letters for UUID"

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Jean" == Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxxx> writes:

 > On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 22:13 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
 >> This reverts commit 712ff25450bd01366301eef81c33e865d901e7b7.
 >> 
 >> The output of dmi_save_uuid() is exposed to user space as
 >> /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/*_uuid, so this breaks backwards compatibility,
 >> E.G.  I have systems that include the content of dmi/id/product_uuid as part
 >> of the keyphrase for cryptsetup luksOpen.
 >> 
 >> As the change was purely cosmetical, revert it to fix such breakage.

 > The change is not "cosmetical". The change was done to comply with RFC
 > 4122:

 > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122

 >   The hexadecimal values "a" through "f" are output as
 >   lower case characters and are case insensitive on input.

I get that - but it changes the content of sysfs entries, breaking real
systems - E.G. a user space ABI regression.

It is a cosmetic code change in the sense that no known software was
broken with the upper case characters.


 > If "cryptsetup luksOpen" does not lowercase digits before computing its
 > key passphrase, then it's not RFC 4122-compliant and should be fixed.

cryptsetup naturally doesn't know anything about RFC 4122. It just reads
a disk encryption keyphrase which happen to include the content of
id/product_uuid because of my scripts.

 > Nak. This is too late. Changing it again would just add confusion.

Please reconsider. 4.17 is from June, and 4.19 has only recently become
LTS.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard