Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] introduce tee-based EFI Runtime Variable Service

[Ilias Apalodimas]

Hi Jan,

On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 at 17:56, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 22.06.23 10:51, Masahisa Kojima wrote:
> > This series introduces the tee based EFI Runtime Variable Service.
> >
> > The eMMC device is typically owned by the non-secure world(linux in
> > this case). There is an existing solution utilizing eMMC RPMB partition
> > for EFI Variables, it is implemented by interacting with
> > OP-TEE, StandaloneMM(as EFI Variable Service Pseudo TA), eMMC driver
> > and tee-supplicant. The last piece is the tee-based variable access
> > driver to interact with OP-TEE and StandaloneMM.
> >
> > Changelog:
> > v5 -> v6
> > - new patch #4 is added in this series, #1-#3 patches are unchanged.
> >   automatically update super block flag when the efivarops support
> >   SetVariable runtime service, so that user does not need to manually
> >   remount the efivarfs as RW.
>
> But that is not yet resolving the architectural problem with that
> userspace daemon dependency. What are the next steps for that now?

We are trying to find some cycles to work on that, however, I don't
have a time estimate on that.  But the question is different here.
Since this addresses the problems distros have wrt to SetVariableRT
(even for a limited set of platforms) are we ok pulling this in?  I
can't think of a technical reason we shouldn't.  The supplicant
limitations are known and the firrmwareTPM has a similar set of
problems.

Thanks
/Ilias

>
> Thanks,
> Jan
>
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