Re: [PATCH 0/8] efi: Pass secure boot mode to kernel [ver #6]

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Wed Jan 11 2017 - 10:05:21 EST


On 11 January 2017 at 15:01, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Dec, at 12:30:08PM, David Howells wrote:
>>
>> Here's a set of patches that can determine the secure boot state of the
>> UEFI BIOS and pass that along to the main kernel image. This involves
>> generalising ARM's efi_get_secureboot() function and making it mixed-mode
>> safe.
>
> This version looks OK to me apart from the couple of comments I made.
>
> Ard, did you take a look? In particular some boot testing on ARM/arm64
> would be useful. x86 boots fine in both regular and mixed mode but
> I've only tested without Secure Boot enabled.

I did take a look at these patches (and commented on them) as they
were coming in, but I haven't yet gone through them as thoroughly as I
should. I will test them on ARM/arm64 as well.