What should the default lockdown mode be if the bootloader sentinel triggers sanitization?

Matt Fleming matt at codeblueprint.co.uk
Mon Jan 30 05:50:02 PST 2017


On Mon, 30 Jan, at 12:10:29PM, David Howells wrote:
> 
> Matt argues, however, that boot_params->secure_boot should be propagated from
> the bootloader and if the bootloader wants to set it, then we should skip the
> check in efi_main() and go with the bootloader's opinion.  This is something
> we probably want to do with kexec() so that the lockdown state is propagated
> there.
 
Actually what I was arguing for was that if the boot loader wants to
set it and bypass the EFI boot stub, e.g. by going via the legacy
64-bit entry point, startup_64, then we should allow that as well as
setting the flag in the EFI boot stub.



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