efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default
commit ed8b0de5 upstream. "rm -rf" is bricking some peoples' laptops because of variables being used to store non-reinitializable firmware driver data that's required to POST the hardware. These are 100% bugs, and they need to be fixed, but in the mean time it shouldn't be easy to *accidentally* brick machines. We have to have delete working, and picking which variables do and don't work for deletion is quite intractable, so instead make everything immutable by default (except for a whitelist), and make tools that aren't quite so broad-spectrum unset the immutable flag. Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com> Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> [ luis: backported to 3.16: - use mutex_lock/unlock() instead of inode_lock/unlock() - use root->d_inode instead of d_inode() ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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