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authorWilliam Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>2017-06-13 12:45:35 -0500
committerWilliam Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>2017-06-13 13:19:36 -0500
commitf87a9eec3d23ea01578500972f1df993d5d24fba (patch)
tree821e6e5d2ec9267749f746eab4547cbccde8cc5e
parent1e837d596e483ceb5cec177a6c7faff24a42384b (diff)
init.d/sysfs: mount efivars read only
This fixes #134.
-rw-r--r--NEWS.md7
-rw-r--r--init.d/sysfs.in2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 90a452b6..53802b40 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
This file will contain a list of notable changes for each release. Note
the information in this file is in reverse order.
+## OpenRC-0.28
+
+This version mounts efivars read only due to concerns about changes in
+this file system making systems unbootable. If you need to change something
+in this path, you will need to re-mount it read-write, make the change
+and re-mount it read-only.
+
## OpenRC-0.25
This version contains an OpenRC-specific implementation of init for
diff --git a/init.d/sysfs.in b/init.d/sysfs.in
index e493f584..a2538114 100644
--- a/init.d/sysfs.in
+++ b/init.d/sysfs.in
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ mount_misc()
if [ -d /sys/firmware/efi/efivars ] &&
! mountinfo -q /sys/firmware/efi/efivars; then
ebegin "Mounting efivarfs filesystem"
- mount -n -t efivarfs -o ${sysfs_opts} \
+ mount -n -t efivarfs -o ro \
efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars 2> /dev/null
eend 0
fi