[PATCH 3/3] integrity: Load certs from the EFI MOK config table

Lenny Szubowicz lszubowi at redhat.com
Wed Aug 26 03:44:55 UTC 2020


Because of system-specific EFI firmware limitations,
EFI volatile variables may not be capable of holding the
required contents of the Machine Owner Key (MOK) certificate
store. Therefore, an EFI boot loader may pass the MOK certs
via a EFI configuration table created specifically for this
purpose to avoid this firmware limitation.

An EFI configuration table is a much more primitive mechanism
compared to EFI variables and is well suited for one-way passage
of static information from a pre-OS environment to the kernel.

This patch adds the support to load certs from the MokListRT
entry in the MOK variable configuration table, if it's present.
The pre-existing support to load certs from the MokListRT EFI
variable remains and is used if the EFI MOK configuration table
isn't present or can't be successfully used.

Signed-off-by: Lenny Szubowicz <lszubowi at redhat.com>
---
 security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c b/security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c
index 547410d8ffa5..2c9c847d9b62 100644
--- a/security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c
+++ b/security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ static __init void *get_cert_list(efi_char16_t *name, efi_guid_t *guid,
  *
  * Load the certs contained in the UEFI MokListRT database into the
  * platform trusted keyring.
+ *
+ * This routine checks the EFI MOK config table first. If and only if
+ * that fails, this routine uses the MokListRT ordinary UEFI variable.
  */
 static int __init load_moklist_certs(void)
 {
@@ -79,8 +82,27 @@ static int __init load_moklist_certs(void)
 	void *mok = NULL;
 	unsigned long moksize = 0;
 	efi_status_t status;
+	struct efi_mokvar_table_entry *mokvar_entry = NULL;
 	int rc = 0;
 
+	/* First try to load certs from the EFI MOKvar config table.
+	 * It's not an error if the MOKvar config table doesn't exist
+	 * or the MokListRT entry is not found in it.
+	 */
+	mokvar_entry = efi_mokvar_entry_find("MokListRT");
+	if (mokvar_entry) {
+		rc = parse_efi_signature_list("UEFI:MokListRT (MOKvar table)",
+					      mokvar_entry->data,
+					      mokvar_entry->data_size,
+					      get_handler_for_db);
+		/* All done if that worked. */
+		if (!rc)
+			return rc;
+
+		pr_err("Couldn't parse MokListRT signatures from EFI MOKvar config table: %d\n",
+		       rc);
+	}
+
 	/* Get MokListRT. It might not exist, so it isn't an error
 	 * if we can't get it.
 	 */
-- 
2.27.0



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