libnvdimm/label: Clear 'updating' flag after label-set update
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tue, 15 Jan 2019 18:47:00 +0000 (10:47 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:09:53 +0000 (20:09 +0100)
commit2b88d92ea9d2baef67910564878024d56f233ea7
tree07da9be7820b1fb23bd3d341353138efe0bdebb6
parentf4dfb94a075483a0326acf21d09dcbe0ed0bdc56
libnvdimm/label: Clear 'updating' flag after label-set update

commit 966d23a006ca7b44ac8cf4d0c96b19785e0c3da0 upstream.

The UEFI 2.7 specification sets expectations that the 'updating' flag is
eventually cleared. To date, the libnvdimm core has never adhered to
that protocol. The policy of the core matches the policy of other
multi-device info-block formats like MD-Software-RAID that expect
administrator intervention on inconsistent info-blocks, not automatic
invalidation.

However, some pre-boot environments may unfortunately attempt to "clean
up" the labels and invalidate a set when it fails to find at least one
"non-updating" label in the set. Clear the updating flag after set
updates to minimize the window of vulnerability to aggressive pre-boot
environments.

Ideally implementations would not write to the label area outside of
creating namespaces.

Note that this only minimizes the window, it does not close it as the
system can still crash while clearing the flag and the set can be
subsequently deleted / invalidated by the pre-boot environment.

Fixes: f524bf271a5c ("libnvdimm: write pmem label set")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Kelly Couch <kelly.j.couch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/nvdimm/label.c