On 02/01/2016 06:12 PM, Wim wrote: > Hi all, > > It seems you can delete EFI vars if you're not careful. Someone found > that executing "rm -rf --no-preserve-root /" also deleted EFI vars, > turning his MSI Notebook into a brick. > > It also seems mounting these is hardcoded into systemd: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=207549 > > efibootmgr needs to write to EFI vars, it seems. Here's Poettering's answer: > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402 > > Well, you've probably guessed the answer - Won't fix. >
The guy is unbelievable, but as you point out predictable. There is a big difference between hosing a operating system install and bricking a piece of hardware. Lots of hardware has bugs that need a work around and stuff like ROMs that should only be RW if required. Ignoring it, not even stating a logical position and closing the topic just shows the quality of the man and his products. Looking around he seems to have a lot of apologist on his side that really don't have a grasp of the situation. One wonders if it is confined only to the one piece of hardware or if there are others that may share the code, looks like a potential exploit to me. Some of you can just be glad that there is no room on most embedded systems for the systemd shenanigans. (-; Clarke _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
