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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, lukas@wunner.de, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] efi: Get the secure boot status [ver #3]
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:30:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15173.1480066220@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1480016487.2444.18.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:

> Since you seem to be using this to mean "is the platform locked down?",
> this looks to be no longer complete in the UEFI 2.6 world.  If
> DeployedMode == 0, even if SecureBoot == 1 and SetupMode == 0, you can
> remove the platform key by writing 1 to AuditMode and gain control of
> the secure variables.  The lock down state becomes DeployedMode == 1,
> SecureBoot == 1 and SetupMode == 0
> 
> See the diagram on page 1817
> 
> http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%20Spec%202_6.pdf

How many pages?!

Does the DeployedMode variable not exist in older versions of the UEFI spec?

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-25  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-23 12:53 [PATCH 0/7] efi: Pass secure boot mode to kernel " David Howells
2016-11-23 12:53 ` [PATCH 1/7] efi: use typed function pointers for runtime services table " David Howells
2016-11-23 12:53 ` [PATCH 2/7] x86/efi: Allow invocation of arbitrary runtime services " David Howells
2016-11-23 12:53 ` [PATCH 3/7] arm/efi: " David Howells
2016-11-23 12:54 ` [PATCH 4/7] efi: Add SHIM and image security database GUID definitions " David Howells
2016-11-23 12:54 ` [PATCH 5/7] efi: Get the secure boot status " David Howells
2016-11-24 19:41   ` James Bottomley
2016-11-25  9:30   ` David Howells [this message]
2016-11-25  9:52     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-25 12:03     ` David Howells
2016-11-25 12:24       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-25 12:35       ` David Howells
2016-11-25 12:43         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-25 12:51         ` David Howells
2016-11-25 12:52           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-25 13:00         ` David Howells
2016-11-25 13:50           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-25 15:59           ` David Howells
2016-11-25 16:50         ` David Howells
2016-11-25 16:51           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-25 16:57           ` David Howells
2016-11-23 12:54 ` [PATCH 6/7] efi: Disable secure boot if shim is in insecure mode " David Howells
2016-11-23 12:54 ` [PATCH 7/7] efi: Add EFI_SECURE_BOOT bit " David Howells

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