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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: lukas@wunner.de, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] efi: Get the secure boot status [ver #2]
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:42:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161123134219.GH24624@leverpostej> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18007.1479900357@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 11:25:57AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> > 	int secure_boot = efi_get_secureboot(sys_table);
> > 
> > 	if (secure_boot > 0)
> > 		pr_efi(sys_table, "UEFI Secure Boot is enabled.\n");
> > 	if (secure_boot < 0)
> > 		pr_efi_err(sys_table,
> > 			"could not determine UEFI Secure Boot status.\n");
> 
> In which case, should this be moved into efi_get_secureboot() and it return a
> bool?

That would make sense to me, provided we're only likely to call that
once (and only log once).

I guess it would also make sense to change the latter case to soemthing
like:
	
	Could not determine UEFI Secure Boot status. Assuming enabled.

... so as to make it clear what the effect is.

Thanks,
Mark.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-23 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-23  0:22 [PATCH 0/6] efi: Pass secure boot mode to kernel [ver #2] David Howells
2016-11-23  0:22 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86/efi: Allow invocation of arbitrary runtime services " David Howells
2016-11-23  0:22 ` [PATCH 2/6] arm/efi: " David Howells
2016-11-23  9:34   ` David Howells
2016-11-23 10:35     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-23 11:51       ` David Howells
2016-11-23 10:27   ` Mark Rutland
2016-11-23 11:46     ` David Howells
2016-11-23 13:38       ` Mark Rutland
2016-11-23  0:22 ` [PATCH 3/6] efi: Add SHIM and image security database GUID definitions " David Howells
2016-11-23  0:22 ` [PATCH 4/6] efi: Get the secure boot status " David Howells
2016-11-23  9:31   ` Lukas Wunner
2016-11-23  9:53     ` David Howells
2016-11-23 10:10       ` Lukas Wunner
2016-11-23 10:47   ` Mark Rutland
2016-11-23 11:25     ` David Howells
2016-11-23 13:42       ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2016-11-23 14:13         ` David Howells
2016-11-23 14:24           ` Mark Rutland
2016-11-23 14:55             ` David Howells
2016-11-29 18:11               ` Matthew Garrett
2016-11-30 16:51     ` David Howells
2016-11-23  0:23 ` [PATCH 5/6] efi: Disable secure boot if shim is in insecure mode " David Howells
2016-11-23 13:38   ` Mark Rutland
2016-11-23  0:23 ` [PATCH 6/6] efi: Add EFI_SECURE_BOOT bit " David Howells
2016-11-23  9:27   ` Lukas Wunner
2016-11-23 10:07     ` David Howells
2016-11-23 10:09       ` David Howells

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