Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] efi: call get_event_log before ExitBootServices

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Thu Sep 14 2017 - 15:03:03 EST


On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:48:54AM -0700, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen
> <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 12:00:21PM +0200, Thiebaud Weksteen wrote:
> >> With TPM 2.0 specification, the event logs may only be accessible by
> >> calling an EFI Boot Service. Modify the EFI stub to copy the log area to
> >> a new Linux-specific EFI configuration table so it remains accessible
> >> once booted.
> >>
> >> When calling this service, it is possible to specify the expected format
> >> of the logs: TPM 1.2 (SHA1) or TPM 2.0 ("Crypto Agile"). For now, only the
> >> first format is retrieved.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Thiebaud Weksteen <tweek@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > With a quick skim the code change looks good but I remember from
> > Matthew's talk that there was this issue that ExitBootServices() would
> > cause a yet another event?
> >
> > I guess you could manually synthetize that event by reading the PCR
> > values right after ExitBootServices()?
>
> I think that would involve breaking SHA1â the information should be

You are absolutely right, was not thinking clearly :-)

> available in the TCG_TREE_FINAL_EVENTS configuration table, so it
> /should/ just be a matter of merging the events from that into the
> event log.

Right, it is available through runtime services. Why this isn't part
of the patch set?

/Jrakko

/Jarkko