On Tue, 22 Mar, at 09:36:25PM, Mario Limonciello wrote: > > Actually, I think this patch should be discarded unless there is a > desire to make the kernel work with older userspace tools. > > I later realized that efivar 0.22 will actually handle working with > immutable variables properly. This means that mokutil 0.2 won't work > with this kernel commit, but mokutil 0.3 which uses efivar > (https://github.com/lcp/mokutil/commit/7b49e834284659527c9f7cf554f223748c00564b) > should work properly. > > fwupdate works properly in most instances except for an install time > cleanup script that removes stale variables. This is fixed with a > trivial change: > https://github.com/rhinstaller/fwupdate/pull/50/commits/535d3a0f9c096d452cc7e2b5be79cf964e2d6d5b
Indeed. Given that the kernel patch works around such a serious problem, I'm inclined to encourage distributions to upgrade mokutil and fwupdate.