From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
Dov Murik <dovmurik@linux.ibm.com>,
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"open list:LINUX FOR POWERPC (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)"
<linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Allow guest access to EFI confidential computing secret area
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 08:22:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMj1kXFTyc9KnMsnvs+mt80DbJL8VGKKcQ0J=4NrGYGSAG8sRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220202071023.GA9489@srcf.ucam.org>
On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 08:10, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 08:05:23AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > I see different platform patches trying to stick these blobs in
> > different locations and ways to access (securityfs, sysfs, char device
> > node), which seems crazy to me. Why can't we at least pick one way to
> > access these to start with, and then have the filesystem layout be
> > platform-specific as needed, which will give the correct hints to
> > userspace as to what it needs to do here?
>
> Which other examples are you thinking of? I think this conversation may
> have accidentally become conflated with a different prior one and now
> we're talking at cross purposes.
This came up a while ago during review of one of the earlier revisions
of this patch set.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-efi/YRZuIIVIzMfgjtEl@google.com/
which describes another two variations on the theme, for pKVM guests
as well as Android bare metal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-02 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-01 12:44 [PATCH v7 0/5] Allow guest access to EFI confidential computing secret area Dov Murik
2022-02-01 12:44 ` [PATCH v7 1/5] efi: Save location of EFI confidential computing area Dov Murik
2022-02-02 8:38 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-02-01 12:44 ` [PATCH v7 2/5] efi/libstub: Reserve confidential computing secret area Dov Murik
2022-02-02 8:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-02-02 11:13 ` Dov Murik
2022-02-01 12:44 ` [PATCH v7 3/5] virt: Add efi_secret module to expose confidential computing secrets Dov Murik
2022-02-02 8:45 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-02-02 10:55 ` Dov Murik
2022-02-01 12:44 ` [PATCH v7 4/5] efi: Load efi_secret module if EFI secret area is populated Dov Murik
2022-02-02 8:47 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-02-02 11:08 ` Dov Murik
2022-02-02 14:31 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-02-02 15:09 ` Dov Murik
2022-02-03 6:16 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-02-03 11:03 ` Dov Murik
2022-02-03 12:11 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-02-01 12:44 ` [PATCH v7 5/5] docs: security: Add coco/efi_secret documentation Dov Murik
2022-02-02 8:49 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-02-02 11:19 ` Dov Murik
2022-02-01 13:50 ` [PATCH v7 0/5] Allow guest access to EFI confidential computing secret area Greg KH
2022-02-01 14:24 ` James Bottomley
2022-02-01 14:41 ` Greg KH
2022-02-01 15:05 ` James Bottomley
2022-02-01 18:07 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2022-02-02 4:01 ` Matthew Garrett
2022-02-02 6:10 ` Greg KH
2022-02-02 6:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2022-02-02 7:05 ` Greg KH
2022-02-02 7:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2022-02-02 7:22 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2022-02-02 8:04 ` Matthew Garrett
2022-02-02 8:25 ` Greg KH
2022-02-09 0:25 ` Nayna
2022-02-02 8:36 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-02-02 8:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2022-02-07 18:50 ` Dov Murik
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