From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: yannik@sembritzki.me, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
Justin Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com>,
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kexec forbidding kernels signed with custom platform keys to boot
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 13:53:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1534366395.4049.19.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzRHVXP4Ag4aygao1dTGaaMJZSOisHT2ks3_WP97kLLhQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2018-08-15 at 13:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:49 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I see that module signing code trusts only builtin keys and
> > not the keys in secondary_trusted_keys keyring.
>
> This, I think, makes sense.
>
> It basically says: we don't allow modules that weren't built with the
> kernel. Adding a new key later and signing a module with it violates
> that premise.
Yes, the point is about layers of trust. The UEFI secure boot keys for
a standard (i.e. system where the user hasn't taken ownership) contain
Microsoft and some ODM vendor keys. You're forced to trust these keys
in the boot (or reboot) environment because that's consistent with the
way windows operates (any breach and microsoft will get annoyed and
help us sort it out). You can't trust them for other kernel key
operations because that's outside the boot environment trust boundary
and if something goes wrong (say someone at an ODM signs a malicious
linux kernel module because the ODM keys are trusted to sign modules)
Microsoft won't care and we'll be on our own with no real ability to
sort it out.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-15 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-15 10:00 [PATCH] Fix kexec forbidding kernels signed with custom platform keys to boot Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 17:27 ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 17:37 ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 17:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-08-15 18:44 ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 18:58 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-08-15 19:06 ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 19:49 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-08-15 20:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 20:53 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2018-08-15 21:08 ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 21:13 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-15 21:31 ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 21:40 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-15 21:50 ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 21:57 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-08-15 22:14 ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 21:52 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-08-15 21:57 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-15 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-16 13:51 ` David Howells
2018-08-16 15:16 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-16 15:42 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-16 15:49 ` David Howells
2018-08-16 15:56 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-16 16:56 ` David Laight
2018-08-16 17:15 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-16 20:31 ` David Howells
2018-08-17 0:07 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-17 8:24 ` David Howells
2018-08-17 14:58 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-17 15:42 ` Justin Forbes
2018-08-17 16:02 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-16 0:52 ` Dave Young
2018-08-16 0:55 ` Dave Young
2018-08-16 12:13 ` David Howells
2018-08-16 14:22 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-16 14:43 ` David Howells
2018-08-16 14:59 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-17 17:00 ` Alan Cox
2018-08-15 17:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 18:19 ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 19:42 ` [PATCH 0/2] Fix kexec forbidding kernels signed with keys in the secondary keyring " Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-16 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 19:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 19:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] Replace magic for trusting the secondary keyring with #define Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 21:14 ` kbuild test robot
2018-08-15 21:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] [FIXED] " Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 22:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 22:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] [FIXED v2] " Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-16 1:11 ` Dave Young
2018-08-16 7:43 ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-16 8:02 ` Dave Young
2018-08-16 8:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-16 12:46 ` Vivek Goyal
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