On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 19:06, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de> wrote: > > On 2018-12-04 09:23:13 [-0800], Kees Cook wrote: > > Okay, so, if kmsg_dump() uses rcu_read_lock(), that means efi-pstore > > can _never_ sleep, and it's nothing to do with pstore internals. :( I > > guess we just hard-code it, then? And efi-pstore should probably only > > attach to pstore if it has a nonblock implementation (and warn if one > > isn't available). > > I was about to suggest that. I am not aware if anything else could use > efi_pstore_write() use that but otherwise you could hardcode it. >
efivar_entry_set_safe() will only use the default backend if no non-blocking variant is provided, in which case it assumes that the default one is non-blocking. Perhaps we should just assign both function pointers to the same function in this case.
