[RFC PATCH v2 2/3] fs: define a firmware security filesystem named fwsecurityfs

Casey Schaufler casey at schaufler-ca.com
Thu Jun 23 08:29:01 AEST 2022


On 6/22/2022 2:56 PM, Nayna Jain wrote:
> securityfs is meant for linux security subsystems to expose policies/logs
> or any other information. However, there are various firmware security
> features which expose their variables for user management via kernel.
> There is currently no single place to expose these variables. Different
> platforms use sysfs/platform specific filesystem(efivarfs)/securityfs
> interface as find appropriate. Thus, there is a gap in kernel interfaces
> to expose variables for security features.

Why not put the firmware entries under /sys/kernel/security/firmware?



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