Re: [PATCH] Platform integrity information in sysfs

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:18:04PM -0300, Daniel Gutson wrote:
> This patch exports information about the platform integrity
> firmware configuration in the sysfs filesystem.
> In this initial patch, I include some configuration attributes
> for the system SPI chip.
> 
> This initial version exports the BIOS Write Enable (bioswe),
> BIOS Lock Enable (ble), and the SMM BIOS Write Protect (SMM_BWP)
> fields of the BIOS Control register. The idea is to keep adding more
> flags, not only from the BC but also from other registers in following
> versions.
> 
> The goal is that the attributes are avilable to fwupd when SecureBoot
> is turned on.
> 
> The patch provides a new misc driver, as proposed in the previous patch,
> that provides a registration function for HW Driver devices to register
> class_attributes.
> In this case, the intel SPI flash chip (intel-spi) registers three
> class_attributes corresponding to the fields mentioned above.
> 
> This version of the patch provides a new API supporting regular
> device attributes rather than custom attributes, and also avoids
> a race condition when exporting the driver sysfs dir and the
> attributes files inside it.
> Also, this patch renames 'platform lockdown' by 'platform integrity'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Gutson <daniel.gutson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Always version your patches, there's no way this is "v1", right?

greg k-h