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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fs@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] MODSIGN: print appropriate status message when getting UEFI certificates list
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:17:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1520961470.5360.18.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180313103559.13032-3-jlee@suse.com>

On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 18:35 +0800, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> When getting certificates list from UEFI variable, the original error
> message shows the state number from UEFI firmware. It's hard to be
> read by human. This patch changed the error message to show the
> appropriate string.
> 
> The message will be showed as:
> 
> [    0.788529] MODSIGN: Couldn't get UEFI MokListRT: EFI_NOT_FOUND
> [    0.788537] MODSIGN: Couldn't get UEFI MokListXRT: EFI_NOT_FOUND

I keep saying this, but these error messages need to be gated on the
presence of shim for the non-shim secure boot case.  You can't assume
the shim variables are there because they won't be in the case of a
fully owned system.

James

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-13 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-13 10:35 [PATCH 0/5 v2] Using the hash in MOKx to blacklist kernel module Lee, Chun-Yi
2018-03-13 10:35 ` [PATCH 1/5] MODSIGN: do not load mok when secure boot disabled Lee, Chun-Yi
2018-03-13 10:35 ` [PATCH 2/5] MODSIGN: print appropriate status message when getting UEFI certificates list Lee, Chun-Yi
2018-03-13 17:17   ` James Bottomley [this message]
2018-03-14  4:40     ` joeyli
2018-03-13 10:37 [PATCH 0/5 v2] Using the hash in MOKx to blacklist kernel module Lee, Chun-Yi
2018-03-13 10:38 ` [PATCH 2/5] MODSIGN: print appropriate status message when getting UEFI certificates list Lee, Chun-Yi

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