Re: [PATCH v14 02/19] x86: Secure Launch Kconfig

Randy Dunlap
2025-04-21T17:41:47Z

Hi,

On 4/21/25 9:26 AM, Ross Philipson wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 4b9f378e05f6..badde1e9742e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -2001,6 +2001,17 @@ config EFI_RUNTIME_MAP
>
> See also Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-runtime-map.
>
> +config SECURE_LAUNCH
> + bool "Secure Launch support"
> + depends on X86_64 && X86_X2APIC && TCG_TIS && TCG_CRB && CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 && CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256

It's normal to select needed library symbols instead of depending on them.
Nothing else in the kernel tree uses depends on for these 2 Kconfig symbols.
(CRYPTO_LIB_SHAxxx)

> + help
> + The Secure Launch feature allows a kernel to be loaded
> + directly through an Intel TXT measured launch. Intel TXT
> + establishes a Dynamic Root of Trust for Measurement (DRTM)
> + where the CPU measures the kernel image. This feature then
> + continues the measurement chain over kernel configuration
> + information and init images.

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~Randy