On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 1:45 PM Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the fact that
> unprivileged users can read efi variables at all is a mistake
> regardless of SMI issues.

Why? They should never contain sensitive material.

> Also, chmod() just shouldn't work on efi variables, and the mode
> passed to creat() should be ignored.  After all, there's no backing
> store for the mode.

If the default is 600 then it makes sense to allow a privileged service to
selectively make certain variables world readable at runtime.
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