From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Ge Yang <yangge1116@126.com>, ardb@kernel.org
Cc: jarkko@kernel.org, sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com,
ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org, jgg@ziepe.ca,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, liuzixing@hygon.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] efi/tpm: Fix the issue where the CC platforms event log header can't be correctly identified
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 05:32:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bed58d57f3d2aa2a5a3c1498d24d109be5717612.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec847802-5189-461a-a372-f81839938579@126.com>
On Fri, 2025-07-11 at 09:23 +0800, Ge Yang wrote:
> 在 2025/7/11 5:58, James Bottomley 写道:
[...]
> > I think someone has misread the spec. EV_NO_ACTION events produce
> > no PCR extension. So the PCR value zero is conventional (and
> > required by the TCG) since nothing gets logged. Therefore even if
> > you're technically using PCR0 for something else EV_NO_ACTION
> > events should still have the conventional PCR = 0 value to conform
> > to the TCG spec. I assume it's too late to correct this in the
> > implementation?
> >
>
> According to Table 14 in Section 10.4.1 of the TCG PC Client
> Specification, for EV_NO_ACTION events, the PCR (Platform
> Configuration Register) value can be 0 or other values, such as 6.
>
> Link:
> https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/wp-content/uploads/TCG_PCClient_PFP_r1p05_v23_pub.pdf
You're selectively quoting one part of the spec out of context.
Section 10.4.5 (which is the normative one about EV_NO_ACTION events)
says:
1. All EV_NO_ACTION events SHALL set TCG_PCR_EVENT2.pcrIndex = 0,
unless otherwise specified.
And the only update to this is in 10.4.5.4 where it says a vendor
specific EV_NO_ACTION event may set pcrIndex to 6. Since the log
header is not vendor specific, it must have pcr = 0.
Regards,
James
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-11 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-07 3:14 yangge1116
2025-07-08 1:19 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2025-07-08 7:39 ` Ge Yang
2025-07-10 21:58 ` James Bottomley
2025-07-11 1:23 ` Ge Yang
2025-07-11 12:32 ` James Bottomley [this message]
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