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From: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@kernel.org>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	bjorn.andersson@linaro.org,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
	linux-security-module <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-integrity <linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] fs: introduce kernel_pread_file* support
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 12:41:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a228ae0f-d551-e0e8-446e-5ae63462c520@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1589398747.5098.178.camel@kernel.org>



On 2020-05-13 12:39 p.m., Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 12:18 -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
>> On 2020-05-13 12:03 p.m., Mimi Zohar wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 11:53 -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
>> Even if the kernel successfully verified the firmware file signature it
>> would just be wasting its time.  The kernel in these use cases is not always
>> trusted.  The device needs to authenticate the firmware image itself.
> There are also environments where the kernel is trusted and limits the
> firmware being provided to the device to one which they signed.
>
>>> The device firmware is being downloaded piecemeal from somewhere and
>>> won't be measured?
>> It doesn't need to be measured for current driver needs.
> Sure the device doesn't need the kernel measuring the firmware, but
> hardened environments do measure firmware.
>
>> If someone has such need the infrastructure could be added to the kernel
>> at a later date.  Existing functionality is not broken in any way by
>> this patch series.
> Wow!  You're saying that your patch set takes precedence over the
> existing expectations and can break them.
Huh? I said existing functionality is NOT broken by this patch series.
>
> Mimi


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-13 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-08  0:27 [PATCH v5 0/7] firmware: add partial read support in request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2020-05-08  0:27 ` [PATCH v5 1/7] fs: introduce kernel_pread_file* support Scott Branden
2020-05-13  0:27   ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-13  6:23     ` Scott Branden
2020-05-13  6:51       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-13  8:16         ` Scott Branden
2020-05-13 18:39   ` Mimi Zohar
2020-05-13 18:53     ` Scott Branden
2020-05-13 18:57       ` Scott Branden
2020-05-13 19:03       ` Mimi Zohar
2020-05-13 19:18         ` Scott Branden
2020-05-13 19:39           ` Mimi Zohar
2020-05-13 19:41             ` Scott Branden [this message]
2020-05-13 21:20               ` Mimi Zohar
2020-05-13 21:28                 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-13 22:12                   ` Mimi Zohar
2020-05-13 22:48                     ` Scott Branden
2020-05-13 23:00                       ` Mimi Zohar
2020-05-13 23:34                         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-13 23:58                           ` Mimi Zohar
2020-05-08  0:27 ` [PATCH v5 2/7] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2020-05-13  0:33   ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-13 18:35     ` Scott Branden
2020-05-15 20:44       ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-08  0:27 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] test_firmware: add partial read support for request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2020-05-13  0:35   ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-08  0:27 ` [PATCH v5 4/7] firmware: test partial file reads of request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2020-05-08  0:27 ` [PATCH v5 5/7] bcm-vk: add bcm_vk UAPI Scott Branden
2020-05-08  0:27 ` [PATCH v5 6/7] misc: bcm-vk: add Broadcom VK driver Scott Branden
2020-05-13  0:38   ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-13  6:31     ` Scott Branden
2020-05-13  6:50       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-13 12:30         ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-13 18:39           ` Scott Branden
2020-05-08  0:27 ` [PATCH v5 7/7] MAINTAINERS: bcm-vk: add maintainer for Broadcom VK Driver Scott Branden
2020-05-13 16:23 ` [PATCH v5 0/7] firmware: add partial read support in request_firmware_into_buf Mimi Zohar
2020-05-15 20:47   ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-15 23:28     ` Scott Branden
2020-05-16  1:05       ` Luis Chamberlain

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