From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>,
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@csgraf.de>,
Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>,
Jeff Brasen <jbrasen@nvidia.com>,
Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@wdc.com>,
x86@kernel.org, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] integrity: check properly whether EFI GetVariable() is available
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:46:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200219204603.GA28639@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200219171907.11894-10-ardb@kernel.org>
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 06:19:07PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Testing the value of the efi.get_variable function pointer is not
> the right way to establish whether the platform supports EFI
> variables at runtime. Instead, use the newly added granular check
> that can test for the presence of each EFI runtime service
> individually.
>
> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
> Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> ---
> security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c b/security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c
> index 111898aad56e..e2fe1bd3abb9 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static int __init load_uefi_certs(void)
> unsigned long dbsize = 0, dbxsize = 0, moksize = 0;
> int rc = 0;
>
> - if (!efi.get_variable)
> + if (!efi_rt_services_supported(EFI_RT_SUPPORTED_GET_VARIABLE))
Sorry, where is this defined?
> return false;
>
> /* Get db, MokListRT, and dbx. They might not exist, so it isn't
> --
> 2.17.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-19 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20200219171907.11894-1-ardb@kernel.org>
2020-02-19 17:19 ` [PATCH 9/9] integrity: check properly whether EFI GetVariable() is available Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-19 20:46 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2020-02-19 21:00 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-20 3:19 ` Serge E. Hallyn
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