Re: Firmware signing -- Re: [PATCH 00/27] security, efi: Add kernel lockdown

2017-11-08 Thread AKASHI, Takahiro
Mimi, On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 09:17:37PM -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote: > > > IMHO that should just fail then, ie, a "locked down" kernel should not > > > want to > > > *pass* a firmware signature if such thing could not be done. > > > > > > Its no different than trying to verify a signed module on a

Re: Firmware signing -- Re: [PATCH 00/27] security, efi: Add kernel lockdown

2017-11-08 Thread Mimi Zohar
> > IMHO that should just fail then, ie, a "locked down" kernel should not want > > to > > *pass* a firmware signature if such thing could not be done. > > > > Its no different than trying to verify a signed module on a "locked down" > > for > > which it has no signature. > > > > But perhaps

Re: Firmware signing -- Re: [PATCH 00/27] security, efi: Add kernel lockdown

2017-11-08 Thread AKASHI, Takahiro
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 08:46:26PM +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 03:15:54PM +0900, AKASHI, Takahiro wrote: > > Luis, > > > > Thank you for this heads-up. > > > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:07:00AM +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at

Re: Firmware signing -- Re: [PATCH 00/27] security, efi: Add kernel lockdown

2017-11-08 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 03:01:09PM -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote: > > > > Or reflect that IMA-appraisal, if enabled, will enforce firmware being > > > validly signed. > > > > But FWICT lockdown is a built-in kernel thingy, unless lockdown implies IMA > > it would not be the place to refer to it. > >

Re: Firmware signing -- Re: [PATCH 00/27] security, efi: Add kernel lockdown

2017-11-08 Thread Mimi Zohar
> > Or reflect that IMA-appraisal, if enabled, will enforce firmware being > > validly signed. > > But FWICT lockdown is a built-in kernel thingy, unless lockdown implies IMA > it would not be the place to refer to it. > > It seems the documentation was proposed to help users if an error was

Re: Firmware signing -- Re: [PATCH 00/27] security, efi: Add kernel lockdown

2017-11-08 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 03:15:54PM +0900, AKASHI, Takahiro wrote: > Luis, > > Thank you for this heads-up. > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:07:00AM +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 06:10:41PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote: > > > On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 22:04 +, David Howells

Re: [3/3] arm64: Add software workaround for Falkor erratum 1041

2017-11-08 Thread Manoj Iyer
On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Shanker Donthineni wrote: The ARM architecture defines the memory locations that are permitted to be accessed as the result of a speculative instruction fetch from an exception level for which all stages of translation are disabled. Specifically, the core is permitted to