Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

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V Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 06:31:55AM -0700, Neal Gompa napsal(a):
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 2:05 PM Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mi, 27.07.22 16:50, Chris Murphy (lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> >
> > > > I prefer no shim in my computers. I'm using systemd-boot signed by my
> > > > own CA.
> > >
> > > That is not a generic solution we can ship in Fedora. Since each
> > > distro ships their own shim, they'd each have to ship their own
> > > signed fsfs in order to read the shared a non-FAT $BOOT. It's too
> > > high a barrier to adoption.
> >
> > Something we could add relatively easily to sd-boot is that it could
> > look for drivers to load in one of its own PE sections (let's say a
> > new section ".drivers").
> >
> > Then Fedora could do something like this:
> >
> > 1. build ext4 efifs as UEFI PE binary (→ ext2_x64.efi)
> > 2. build systemd-boot as UEFI PE binary (→ systemd-bootx64.efi)
> > 3. use "objcopy --add-section .drivers=ext2_x64.efi
> >    systemd-bootx64.efi systemd-bootx64.withext4.efi" to embedd the ext4
> >    driver inside systemd-boot
> > 4. sign the resulting systemd-bootx64.withext4.efi via shim/…
> > 5. profitt! now you have an sd-boot binary that can do ext4. yay.
> > 6. ask relevant other distros to do the same. They are probably in a
> >    very similar situation as fedora is, given they typically all use
> >    Grub right now.
> >
> 
> This sounds pretty awesome, actually. I'd like to see that get implemented...
> 
Unfortunatelly (complex) file system drivers are not written with safety
on mind. They rather prefer performance over security. If somebody signed a
UEFI driver for ext4, there would be a storm of CVEs "Secure boot bypass with
a contrived file system".

-- Petr

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