[PATCH 6/7] efi: Handle secure boot from UEFI-2.6 [ver #7]

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Feb 1 04:33:45 PST 2017


Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:

> So this patch should take AuditMode into account, but not DeployedMode, i.e.,
> 
> SecureBoot == 0x1
> SetupMode == 0x0
> AuditMode == 0x0 (or non-existent)

If we're in audit mode or setup mode SecureBoot==0 and SetupMode==1 according
to the flowchart, so the check of AuditMode would seem redundant.

Further, the checks above don't seem to differentiate deployed mode from user
mode.  Should they?

David



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