On 17.02.20 12:39, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > If CONFIG_LOAD_UEFI_KEYS is enabled, the kernel attempts to load the certs > from the db, dbx and MokListRT EFI variables into the appropriate keyrings. > > But it just assumes that the variables will be present and prints an error > if the certs can't be loaded, even when is possible that the variables may > not exist. For example the MokListRT variable will only be present if shim > is used. > > So only print an error message about failing to get the certs list from an > EFI variable if this is found. Otherwise these printed errors just pollute > the kernel log ring buffer with confusing messages like the following: > > [ 5.427251] Couldn't get size: 0x800000000000000e > [ 5.427261] MODSIGN: Couldn't get UEFI db list > [ 5.428012] Couldn't get size: 0x800000000000000e > [ 5.428023] Couldn't get UEFI MokListRT > > Reported-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch seems to break a very basic x86-64 QEMU setup (booting upstream kernel with a F31 initrd - are you running basic boot tests?). Luckily, it only took me 5 minutes to identify this patch. Reverting this patch from linux-next fixes it for me. [ 1.042766] Loaded X.509 cert 'Build time autogenerated kernel key: 6625d6e34255935276d2c9851e2458909a4bcd69' [ 1.044314] zswap: loaded using pool lzo/zbud [ 1.045663] Key type ._fscrypt registered [ 1.046154] Key type .fscrypt registered [ 1.046524] Key type fscrypt-provisioning registered [ 1.051178] Key type big_key registered [ 1.055108] Key type encrypted registered [ 1.055513] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ 1.056172] #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode [ 1.056706] #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page [ 1.057367] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 1.057729] Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 1.058249] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.6.0-rc3-next-20200228+ #79 [ 1.059167] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.4 [ 1.060230] RIP: 0010:0x0 [ 1.060478] Code: Bad RIP value. [ 1.060786] RSP: 0018:ffffbc7880637d98 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 1.061281] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffbc7880637dc8 [ 1.061954] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffbc7880637df0 RDI: ffffffffa73c40be [ 1.062611] RBP: ffffbc7880637e20 R08: ffffbc7880637dac R09: ffffa0238f4ba6c0 [ 1.063278] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 1.063956] R13: ffffa024bdd6f660 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 1.064609] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa023fdd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 1.065360] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 1.065900] CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 00000000b1610000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 1.066562] Call Trace: [ 1.066803] load_uefi_certs+0xc8/0x2bb [ 1.067171] ? get_cert_list+0xfb/0xfb [ 1.067523] do_one_initcall+0x5d/0x2f0 [ 1.067894] ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x52/0x80 [ 1.068337] kernel_init_freeable+0x243/0x2c2 [ 1.068751] ? rest_init+0x23a/0x23a [ 1.069095] kernel_init+0xa/0x106 [ 1.069416] ret_from_fork+0x27/0x50 [ 1.069759] Modules linked in: [ 1.070050] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ 1.070361] ---[ end trace fcce9bb4feb21d99 ]--- -- Thanks, David / dhildenb
