Ard Biesheuvel 472831d4c4 efi: vars: Add thin wrapper around EFI get/set variable interface
The current efivars layer is a jumble of list iterators, shadow data
structures and safe variable manipulation helpers that really belong in
the efivarfs pseudo file system once the obsolete sysfs access method to
EFI variables is removed.

So split off a minimal efivar get/set variable API that reuses the
existing efivars_lock semaphore to mediate access to the various runtime
services, primarily to ensure that performing a SetVariable() on one CPU
while another is calling GetNextVariable() in a loop to enumerate the
contents of the EFI variable store does not result in surprises.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2022-06-24 20:40:19 +02:00
2022-06-05 17:18:54 -07:00

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