From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] load_env support for whitelisting which variables are read from an env file, even if check_signatures=enforce
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:12:22 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130919141222.3c8ad589@opensuse.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADtfRCW2Ae2Gh3=AP9dtf1YR=C2aHtZzYT0NjQ-Bci2dSve-mQ@mail.gmail.com>
В Mon, 9 Sep 2013 08:34:10 -0700
Jonathan McCune <jonmccune@google.com> пишет:
>
> > Now if you could come up with solution that maintains compatibility
> > with existing grub.cfg, that would be valid reason. But right now
> > grub.cfg must be changed anyway at which point just save untrusted
> > variables separately from trusted.
> >
> >
> I don't think my changes break compatibility with anybody's existing
> grub.cfg. Can you be more specific?
>
Currently grub.cfg loads all variables from environment block. Your
change would require changing it to load only whitelisted variables.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-19 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-06 16:18 [PATCH v2 0/5] Enable savedefault, etc with check_signatures=enforce Jon McCune
2013-09-06 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] style: indent --no-tabs --gnu-style grub-core/commands/loadenv.c Jon McCune
2013-09-06 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] load_env support for whitelisting which variables are read from an env file, even if check_signatures=enforce Jon McCune
2013-09-06 19:48 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-09-06 21:10 ` Jonathan McCune
2013-09-07 9:33 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-09-09 15:34 ` Jonathan McCune
2013-09-19 10:12 ` Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
2013-09-19 18:18 ` Jonathan McCune
2013-09-19 7:18 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-09-19 10:06 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-09-06 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] save_env should work, " Jon McCune
2013-09-06 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] Add -k, --pubkey=FILE support to grub-install command Jon McCune
2013-09-06 19:40 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-09-06 21:10 ` Jonathan McCune
2013-09-06 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] Additional security-relevant documentation Jon McCune
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