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From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
To: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] use more system keyrings to verify arm64 kdump kernel image signature
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 09:13:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YlOAvM4qpSlHczOd@MiWiFi-R3L-srv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220408085931.GW163591@kunlun.suse.cz>

On 04/08/22 at 10:59am, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 03:17:19PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > Hi Coiby,
> > 
> > On 04/01/22 at 09:31am, Coiby Xu wrote:
> > > Currently, a problem faced by arm64 is if a kernel image is signed by a
> > > MOK key, loading it via the kexec_file_load() system call would be
> > > rejected with the error "Lockdown: kexec: kexec of unsigned images is
> > > restricted; see man kernel_lockdown.7".
> > > 
> > > This patch set allows arm64 to use more system keyrings to verify kdump 
> > > kernel image signature by making the existing code in x64 public.
> > 
> > Thanks for updating. It would be great to tell why the problem is
> > met, then allow arm64 to use more system keyrings can solve it.
> 
> The reason is that MOK keys are (if anywhere) linked to the secondary
> keyring, and only primary keyring is used on arm64.

Thanks for explaining. This is valuable information and should
be put into log for better understanding when reviewing or
reading code later.


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  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-11  1:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-01  1:31 [PATCH v5 0/3] use more system keyrings to verify arm64 kdump kernel image signature Coiby Xu
2022-04-01  1:31 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] kexec: clean up arch_kexec_kernel_verify_sig Coiby Xu
2022-04-11  9:01   ` Michal Suchánek
2022-04-01  1:31 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] kexec, KEYS: make the code in bzImage64_verify_sig generic Coiby Xu
2022-04-11  8:54   ` Michal Suchánek
2022-04-14  1:46     ` Coiby Xu
2022-04-01  1:31 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] arm64: kexec_file: use more system keyrings to verify kernel image signature Coiby Xu
2022-04-11  8:59   ` Michal Suchánek
2022-04-14  1:44     ` Coiby Xu
2022-04-08  7:17 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] use more system keyrings to verify arm64 kdump " Baoquan He
2022-04-08  8:59   ` Michal Suchánek
2022-04-11  1:13     ` Baoquan He [this message]
2022-04-11  1:52       ` Coiby Xu
2022-04-11  8:43         ` Michal Suchánek
2022-04-13  9:32           ` Coiby Xu

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