From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758302Ab2F0ReM (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:34:12 -0400 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:39906 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758287Ab2F0ReJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:34:09 -0400 Message-ID: <1340818445.3175.73.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Subject: UEFI Secure boot using qemu-kvm From: James Bottomley To: linux-kernel Cc: Jonathan Corbet Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:34:05 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Everyone, The purpose of this email is to widen the pool of people who are playing with UEFI Secure boot. The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board have been looking into this because it turns out to be rather difficult to lay your hands on real UEFI Secure Boot enabled hardware. Many thanks are due to the Intel Tianocore project which recently added the secure boot facility to their UEFI rom images. What I have done: I've built the tianocore boot system (along with a README describing how to use it) and placed it in the opensuse build system so you can download it (the OVMF package) from: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jejb1:/UEFI/openSUSE_12.1/ (it has no OS depends, so the rpm should be installable on almost any distro ... including debian via alien). Also in this repository is Jeremy Kerr's sbsigntools which can be used to sign efi binaries. While doing all of this, I discovered a bug in the gnu-efi environment we usually use to build efi binaries on Linux (the fix is to the loader script). I've got an example of how to use the fixed script and a builder for a LockDown.efi binary that will take a secure boot platform in setup mode and install a Platform Key and Key Exchange Key and enable secure boot (if you type make, it will build the PK and KEK certificates, plus roll them into the binary). http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/efitools.git;a=summary I'll probably add other useful efi utilities as the project progresses. I should note that currently Jeremy's efi signing tools only really do x86_64 binaries, so the whole project is based on that architecture. The current state is that I've managed to lock down the secure boot virtual platform with my own PK and KEK and verified that I can generate signed efi binaries that will run on it (and that it will refuse to run unsigned efi binaries). Finally I've demonstrated that I can sign elilo.efi (this has to be built specially because of the bug in gnu-efi) and have it boot an unsigned linux kernel when the platform is in secure mode (I've booted up to an initrd root prompt). I'm releasing this now because interest in UEFI Secure Boot is rising, particularly amongst the Linux Distributions which don't have access to UEFI secure boot hardware, so having a virtual platform should allow them to experiment with coming up with their own solutions. Please remember, though, that all this is very alpha. The Tianocore firmware that does secure boot is only a few weeks old, and the sbsigning tools weren't really working up until yesterday, so this is very far from rock solid. James PS if you don't understand terms like Platform Key, or Setup Mode in the above, please ask google for help. Secure boot is very technical, but there have been some good blog posts explaining the basics.