From: Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 10:35:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKocOOMyfacUAzqaXLNQdBciFBS25A8AV2xai-yJs-TfsAWQ_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121102155247.GH3300@redhat.com>
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 03:42:48PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 11:30:48AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>>
>> > "crash" utility has module which allows reading kernel memory. So leaking
>> > this private key will be easier then you are thinking it to be.
>>
>> That's not upstream, right?
>
> Yes, checked with Dave, it is not upstream. Well, still it is a concern
> for distro kernel.
>
> So if we keep private key in kernel, looks like we shall have to disable
> one more feature in secureboot mode.
>
I have been following parts of this thread and beginning to think,
"Are we over engineering" the solution for secureboot. Do we have a
list of what is must to meet the Spec.? At this point, Linux
secureboot solution is sounding so pervasive and will impact every
aspect of Linux user's and kernel developer's use pattern. So far I
picked up on the following:
Kernel need to be signed.
firmware kernel loads needs to be signed
What else?
Is there a list of what all needs to be signed? I am interested in
seeing a list of requirements. At some point, OS will be so secure
that, will it become so complex to run anything on it and continue to
do development as we are used to doing today? I don't pretend to know
much about secureboot, and I am asking as a concerned Linux user, and
kernel developer.
-- Shuah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-02 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 224+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-20 14:40 [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support Matthew Garrett
2012-09-20 14:40 ` [PATCH V2 01/10] Secure boot: Add new capability Matthew Garrett
2012-09-28 3:10 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-10-20 0:15 ` joeyli
2012-10-20 9:02 ` Matt Fleming
2012-09-20 14:40 ` [PATCH V2 02/10] PCI: Lock down BAR access in secure boot environments Matthew Garrett
2012-09-20 14:40 ` [PATCH V2 03/10] x86: Lock down IO port " Matthew Garrett
2012-09-20 14:40 ` [PATCH V2 04/10] ACPI: Limit access to custom_method Matthew Garrett
2012-09-20 14:41 ` [PATCH V2 05/10] asus-wmi: Restrict debugfs interface Matthew Garrett
2012-09-20 14:41 ` [PATCH V2 06/10] Restrict /dev/mem and /dev/kmem in secure boot setups Matthew Garrett
2012-09-20 14:41 ` [PATCH V2 07/10] Secure boot: Add a dummy kernel parameter that will switch on Secure Boot mode Matthew Garrett
2012-09-20 16:32 ` Greg KH
2012-09-20 17:40 ` Josh Boyer
2012-09-25 13:08 ` [PATCH V3 " Josh Boyer
2012-10-29 9:00 ` joeyli
2012-10-30 17:48 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-30 19:27 ` joeyli
2012-09-21 8:20 ` [PATCH V2 " joeyli
2012-09-28 3:20 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-09-20 14:41 ` [PATCH V2 08/10] efi: Enable secure boot lockdown automatically when enabled in firmware Matthew Garrett
2012-09-28 3:21 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-10-22 13:22 ` Matt Fleming
2012-09-20 14:41 ` [PATCH V2 09/10] acpi: Ignore acpi_rsdp kernel parameter in a secure boot environment Matthew Garrett
2012-09-20 14:41 ` [PATCH V2 10/10] SELinux: define mapping for new Secure Boot capability Matthew Garrett
2012-09-21 22:55 ` [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-22 15:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-29 7:49 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-10-29 17:41 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-31 14:50 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-10-31 14:54 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-31 14:59 ` Shea Levy
2012-10-31 15:55 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-31 15:55 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-10-31 17:03 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-31 17:01 ` Shea Levy
2012-10-31 17:17 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-31 17:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-31 17:21 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-31 17:17 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-31 17:39 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-31 17:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-31 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-31 17:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-31 20:14 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-10-31 21:58 ` Chris Friesen
2012-10-31 22:00 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-10-31 22:19 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-11-01 9:08 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-01 9:20 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-11-01 9:38 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-01 9:45 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-11-01 9:59 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-01 10:06 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-11-01 14:29 ` Eric Paris
2012-11-01 14:42 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-01 14:49 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 15:06 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-01 15:17 ` Eric Paris
2012-11-01 16:26 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 15:06 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-01 16:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 16:40 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-01 14:59 ` Eric Paris
2012-11-01 15:11 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-01 15:18 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-01 17:50 ` Eric Paris
2012-11-01 21:03 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-01 21:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 21:14 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-01 21:18 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 21:35 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-01 21:31 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-01 21:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 21:37 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-01 21:34 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 21:58 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-01 21:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 8:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-02 14:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 22:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-02 22:19 ` Chris Friesen
2012-11-02 23:46 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-03 0:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-03 0:55 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-03 0:20 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-03 0:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-03 1:03 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-03 1:43 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-03 16:31 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-03 16:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-03 16:37 ` Eric Paris
2012-11-03 16:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 17:19 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-01 15:04 ` Eric Paris
2012-11-01 20:27 ` Pavel Machek
2012-11-01 21:02 ` Chris Friesen
2012-11-02 15:48 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-02 16:54 ` Chris Friesen
2012-11-02 17:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-03 23:09 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-11-05 6:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-05 14:40 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-11-05 15:31 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-11-05 15:37 ` Chris Friesen
2012-11-05 18:22 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-02 16:33 ` Pavel Machek
2012-11-02 16:52 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-02 16:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 17:48 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-02 17:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 17:57 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-02 18:04 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 19:18 ` Eric Paris
2012-11-02 23:38 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-03 0:22 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-03 12:03 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-03 13:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-03 22:56 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-04 4:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-04 9:14 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-04 13:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-05 6:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-05 7:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-05 7:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-05 7:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-05 8:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-05 8:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-05 12:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-05 13:44 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-05 13:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-05 19:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-05 20:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-06 2:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-06 3:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-06 3:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-06 3:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-06 5:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-06 5:34 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-06 7:56 ` Florian Weimer
2012-11-06 15:14 ` Chris Friesen
2012-11-06 15:19 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-11-06 21:51 ` Florian Weimer
2012-11-06 21:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-06 22:06 ` Florian Weimer
2012-11-06 22:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-06 22:49 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-06 22:47 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <CAMFK0gt7oAr4ArD8FmD8QE+i4g4rSTmQjbbLcjs02xwQeXGx-A@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-07 14:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-08 10:18 ` James Courtier-Dutton
[not found] ` <CAAMvbhFF=kb8TJ4oE+40Zrx7HD1OkD0NOYj7QEZegZKGtqDm_A@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-08 11:19 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-06 9:12 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-06 13:17 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-06 8:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-11-05 8:20 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-05 12:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-04 11:53 ` Pavel Machek
2012-11-05 21:25 ` Florian Weimer
2012-11-02 14:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 10:12 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-10-31 17:21 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-10-31 15:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-31 17:08 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-31 17:08 ` Shea Levy
2012-10-31 16:04 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-10-31 16:10 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-31 15:02 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-31 15:05 ` Shea Levy
2012-10-31 15:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 15:30 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-02 15:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 15:52 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-02 16:22 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-11-02 18:30 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-02 16:35 ` Shuah Khan [this message]
2012-11-06 12:51 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-11-06 13:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-31 17:28 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-10-31 17:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-31 17:44 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-31 17:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-31 18:53 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-11-01 4:21 ` joeyli
2012-11-01 13:18 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-05 17:13 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-11-05 17:18 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] Add firmware signature file check Takashi Iwai
2012-11-05 17:19 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] scripts/sign-file: Allow specifying hash algorithm via -a option Takashi Iwai
2012-11-05 17:19 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] scripts/sign-file: Support firmware signing Takashi Iwai
2012-11-05 17:20 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] firmware: Add a signature check Takashi Iwai
2012-11-06 6:03 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-05 17:20 ` [PATCH RFC 4/4] firmware: Install signature files automatically Takashi Iwai
2012-11-05 18:12 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] Add firmware signature file check Takashi Iwai
2012-11-05 20:43 ` Josh Boyer
2012-11-06 6:46 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-11-06 9:20 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-06 10:05 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-11-06 2:30 ` Ming Lei
2012-11-06 5:46 ` lee joey
2012-11-06 7:03 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-11-06 7:16 ` Ming Lei
2012-11-06 7:32 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-11-06 8:04 ` Ming Lei
2012-11-06 8:18 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-11-06 10:04 ` Ming Lei
2012-11-06 10:17 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-11-06 10:40 ` Ming Lei
2012-11-06 10:53 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-11-06 11:03 ` Ming Lei
2012-11-06 11:15 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <CAGB3EUTrSMDhja9Gu3h7nuZX+H2_owp8MnUNwbZuCW=_GuawqQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-06 7:06 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-11-06 7:30 ` Ming Lei
2012-11-08 17:35 ` [PATCH RFC v2 " Takashi Iwai
2012-11-08 17:35 ` [PATCH RFC v2 1/4] firmware: Add the firmware signing support to scripts/sign-file Takashi Iwai
2012-11-23 6:51 ` joeyli
2012-11-08 17:35 ` [PATCH RFC v2 2/4] firmware: Add -a option " Takashi Iwai
2012-11-23 6:51 ` joeyli
2012-11-08 17:35 ` [PATCH RFC v2 3/4] firmware: Add support for signature checks Takashi Iwai
2012-11-23 6:56 ` joeyli
2012-11-23 7:34 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-11-08 17:35 ` [PATCH RFC v2 4/4] firmware: Install firmware signature files automatically Takashi Iwai
2012-11-23 6:52 ` joeyli
2012-11-06 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] Add firmware signature file check David Howells
2012-11-06 7:01 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-11-06 0:05 ` David Howells
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