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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Eric Snowberg <eric.snowberg@oracle.com>,
	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
	dwmw2@infradead.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
	davem@davemloft.net, jmorris@namei.org, serge@hallyn.com,
	nayna@linux.ibm.com, Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
	erichte@linux.ibm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
	keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] certs: Add EFI_CERT_X509_GUID support for dbx entries
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:46:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3063834.1611747971@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YAjMm9Gq/FFOzQYG@kernel.org>

Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> wrote:

> > I suppose a user space tool could be created. But wouldn’t what is
> > currently done in the kernel in this area need to be removed?
> 
> Right. I don't think this was a great idea in the first place to
> do to the kernel but since it exists, I guess the patch does make
> sense.

This information needs to be loaded from the UEFI tables before the system
starts loading any kernel modules or running any programs (if we do
verification of such, which I think IMA can do).

David


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-27 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-16  0:49 [PATCH v4] certs: Add EFI_CERT_X509_GUID support for dbx entries Eric Snowberg
2020-09-16 18:09 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-12-10  9:49 ` David Howells
2020-12-10 18:56   ` Eric Snowberg
2021-01-12 14:57   ` David Howells
2021-01-13 20:41     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-14  0:11       ` Eric Snowberg
2021-01-15  9:15         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-15 16:49           ` Eric Snowberg
2021-01-20 11:26             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-20 22:13               ` Eric Snowberg
2021-01-21  0:36                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-27 11:46                 ` David Howells [this message]
2021-01-27 14:03                   ` Mimi Zohar
2021-01-27 15:41                     ` Eric Snowberg
2021-01-28  4:13                       ` Nayna
2021-01-30 10:24                       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-29 23:27                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-12 17:10   ` David Howells
2021-01-12 19:13     ` Eric Snowberg
2021-01-15 17:21 ` James Bottomley
2021-01-15 23:01   ` Eric Snowberg

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