efi_loader: add an EFI variable with the file contents
Previous patches enabled SetVariableRT using a RAM backend.
Although EBBR [0] defines a variable format we can teach userspace tools
and write the altered variables, it's better if we skip the ABI
requirements completely.
So let's add a new variable, in its own namespace called "VarToFile"
which contains a binary dump of the updated RT, BS and, NV variables
and will be updated when GetVariable is called.
Some adjustments are needed to do that.
Currently we discard BS-only variables in EBS(). We need to preserve
those on the RAM backend that exposes the variables. Since BS-only
variables can't appear at runtime we need to move the memory masking
checks from efi_var_collect() to efi_get_next_variable_name_mem()/
efi_get_variable_mem() and do the filtering at runtime.
We also need an efi_var_collect() variant available at runtime, in order
to construct the "VarToFile" buffer on the fly.
All users and applications (for linux) have to do when updating a variable
is dd that variable in the file described by "RTStorageVolatile".
Linux efivarfs uses a first 4 bytes of the output to represent attributes
in little-endian format. So, storing variables works like this:
$~ efibootmgr -n 0001
$~ dd if=/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/VarToFile-b2ac5fc9-92b7-4acd-aeac-11e818c3130c of=/boot/efi/ubootefi.var skip=4 bs=1
[0] https://arm-software.github.io/ebbr/index.html#document-chapter5-variable-storage
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> # dumping all variables to a variable
Co-developed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com> # contributed on efi_var_collect_mem()
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
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