From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.85_2 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1bNPAh-00025h-5G for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 18:46:11 +0000 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098393.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.11/8.16.0.11) with SMTP id u6DIht6G059036 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:45:50 -0400 Received: from e24smtp02.br.ibm.com (e24smtp02.br.ibm.com [32.104.18.86]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2452xs89df-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:45:50 -0400 Received: from localhost by e24smtp02.br.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:45:47 -0300 From: Thiago Jung Bauermann Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] extend kexec_file_load system call Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:45:41 -0300 In-Reply-To: <7352796.seiSnHrYPy@wuerfel> References: <20160712014201.11456-1-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> <20160713094127.GC14522@leverpostej> <7352796.seiSnHrYPy@wuerfel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <2222184.ZN0KkkXgPC@hactar> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Mark Rutland , bhe@redhat.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vivek Goyal , AKASHI Takahiro , "Eric W. Biederman" , Dave Young , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Am Mittwoch, 13 Juli 2016, 15:13:42 schrieb Arnd Bergmann: > On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 10:41:28 AM CEST Mark Rutland wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:01:33AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > - kboot/petitboot with all of the user space being part of the trusted > > > boot> > > > > chain: it would be good to allow these to modify the dtb as needed > > > without breaking the trust chain, just like we allow grub or u-boot > > > to modify the dtb before passing it to the kernel. > > > > It depends on *what* we need to modify here. We can modify the bootargs > > and initrd properties as part of the kexec_file_load syscall, so what > > else would we want to alter? > > I guess petitboot can also just use kexec_load() instead of > kexec_file_load(), as long as the initramfs containing petitboot is > trusted by the kernel. For secure boot, Petitboot needs to use kexec_file_load, because of the following two features which the system call enables: 1. only allow loading of signed kernels. 2. "measure" (i.e., record the hashes of) the kernel, initrd, kernel command line and other boot inputs for the Integrity Measurement Architecture subsystem. Those can't be done with kexec_load. As for what we need to modify, Petitboot does the following modifications to the DTB: 1. Set /chosen/linux,stdout-path based on which console is being used to interact with it, as Stewart mentioned in another email. 2. Set display properties on /pciex@n/.../vga@0 in machines with an OpenFirmware framebuffer. -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann IBM Linux Technology Center _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec