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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Evgeniy Baskov <baskov@ispras.ru>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] x86_64: Harden compressed kernel, part 1
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 13:22:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yuur2x+H5ESwJmcr@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09c1c94fb9c5006199d88caa88f237a3@ispras.ru>

On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 01:41:58PM +0300, Evgeniy Baskov wrote:
> On 2022-08-03 17:05, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > 
> > That shows me that it's _possible_ to build a more strict PE loader that
> > wouldn't load Linux.  But, in practice is anyone using a more strict PE
> > loader?  Does anyone actually want that in practice?  Or, again, is this
> > more strict PE loader just an academic demonstration?
> > 
> > The README starts:
> > 
> > 	This branch demonstrates...
> > 
> > That doesn't seem like something that's _important_ to deal with.
> > Sounds like a proof-of-concept.
> > 
> > Don't get me wrong, I'm all for improving thing, even if the benefits
> > are far off.  But, let's not fool ourselves.
> 
> We have commercial closed-source UEFI firmware implementation at ISP RAS
> that follows the behavior of the secure_pe branch. That firmware is used
> as a part of [1].
> 
> [1] https://www.ispras.ru/en/technologies/asperitas/

Are there any plans on getting those changes merged back upstream to the
main UEFI codebase so that others can test this type of functionality
out?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-04 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-01 16:38 [RFC PATCH 0/8] x86_64: Harden compressed kernel, part 1 Evgeniy Baskov
2022-08-01 16:38 ` [PATCH 1/8] x86/boot: Align vmlinuz sections on page size Evgeniy Baskov
2022-08-01 16:38 ` [PATCH 2/8] x86/build: Remove RWX sections and align on 4KB Evgeniy Baskov
2022-08-01 16:39 ` [PATCH 3/8] x86/boot: Set cr0 to known state in trampoline Evgeniy Baskov
2022-08-01 16:39 ` [PATCH 4/8] x86/boot: Increase boot page table size Evgeniy Baskov
2022-08-01 16:39 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86/boot: Support 4KB pages for identity mapping Evgeniy Baskov
2022-08-01 16:39 ` [PATCH 6/8] x86/boot: Setup memory protection for bzImage code Evgeniy Baskov
2022-08-01 16:39 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86/boot: Map memory explicitly Evgeniy Baskov
2022-08-01 16:39 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86/boot: Remove mapping from page fault handler Evgeniy Baskov
2022-08-01 16:48 ` [RFC PATCH 0/8] x86_64: Harden compressed kernel, part 1 Dave Hansen
2022-08-02  0:25   ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-08-02  2:41     ` Dave Hansen
2022-08-02 23:45       ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-08-03 14:05         ` Dave Hansen
2022-08-04 10:41           ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-08-04 11:22             ` Greg KH [this message]
2022-08-04 14:26               ` Evgeniy Baskov

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