libnvdimm/label: Clear 'updating' flag after label-set update
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: f524bf27 ("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>
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