Re: shim 16 breaking systemd stub and next steps

[Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 at 23:36, Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The shim maintainers have expressed interest in providing a protocol
> that allows us to correctly configure loadimage so that it doesn't
> check the signature and it doesn't measure, which is what we need.
> I'll provide further updates once there is something more concrete.

Are those nested images always covered by an entire PE/COFF section in
the outer image?

If so, we might just add a LoadNestedImageFromSection() method to the
shim loader protocol that only operates on images that have already
been authenticated.