On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 9:22 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 6:52 AM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 02:33:37PM +0100, David Howells wrote: >>> > Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > >>> > > Whoa. Why doesn't lockdown prevent kexec? Put another away, why >>> > > isn't this a problem for people who are fearful that Linux could be >>> > > used as part of a Windows boot virus in a Secure UEFI context? >>> > >>> > Lockdown mode restricts kexec to booting an authorised image (where the >>> > authorisation may be by signature or by IMA). >> >>> If that's true, then Matthew's assertion that lockdown w/o secure boot >>> is insecure goes away, no? >> >> If you don't have secure boot then an attacker with root can modify your >> bootloader or kernel, and on next boot lockdown can be silently disabled. > > This has been rebutted over and over and over. Secure boot is not the > only verified boot mechanism in the world. Other, better, much more > auditable, and much simpler mechanisms have been around for a long, > long time. > That is certainly the case, and one of the main reasons for the secureboot patchset being split out and lockdown taking a different name. The problem is, right now, secure boot is the only thing using lockdown. I certainly wouldn't go through any effort to tie into it with any other mechanism knowing that this patch set has been delayed upstream for years. I would hope and expect that once lockdown is in mainline, other verified boot mechanisms would leverage it as well. >>> The fact that this Verified Boot on, lockdown off causes trouble >>> points to a clear problem. User owns the hardware they should have >>> the right to defeat secureboot if they wish to. >> >> Which is why Shim allows you to disable validation if you prove physical >> user presence. > > And that's a giant hack. The actual feature should be that a user > proves physical presence and thus disables lockdown *without* > disabling verification. > > --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
