[PATCH 00/27] security, efi: Add kernel lockdown

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Nov 2 22:01:26 UTC 2017


Hi David,

>From the man page:

> Only validly signed modules may be loaded.
> .P
> Only validly signed binaries may be kexec'd.
> .P
> Only validly signed device firmware may be loaded.

fw_get_filesystem_firmware() calls kernel_read_file_from_path() to
read the firmware, which calls into the security hooks. Is there
another place that validates the firmware signatures.  I'm not seeing
which patch requires firmware to be signed?

Mimi

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