Re: [PATCH master] environment: autoprobe environment only when CONFIG_INSECURE=y

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Hi Ahmad,

On 25-01-23, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> As things are, secure booting systems are expected to disable
> CONFIG_ENV_HANDLING to avoid their behavior changing due to a barebox
> environment loaded at runtime.
> 
> Still, some users may want to keep CONFIG_ENV_HANDLING enabled, but
> activated only selectively. For those users, barebox autoprobing block
> devices for a GPT partition with the matching UUID is undesirable.

Good catch!

> Therefore, allow disabling this autoprobe behavior via a globalvar.
> To balance convenience against security, the default for the globalvar
> will depend on whether the CONFIG_INSECURE option is set.

A global INSECURE option like OP-TEE does seems reasonable to avoid
flooding the Kconfig.

> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>




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