Re: [PATCH V2 0/3] integrity: Load certs from EFI MOK config table

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Fri Sep 11 2020 - 12:08:16 EST


On Fri, 2020-09-11 at 18:17 +0300, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 at 04:31, Lenny Szubowicz <lszubowi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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 when the certificate
> > list grows above some size. 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 simpler and more robust mechanism
> > compared to EFI variables and is well suited for one-way passage
> > of static information from a pre-OS environment to the kernel.
> >
> > Entries in the MOK variable configuration table are named key/value
> > pairs. Therefore the shim boot loader can create a MokListRT named
> > entry in the MOK configuration table that contains exactly the same
> > data as the MokListRT UEFI variable does or would otherwise contain.
> > As such, the kernel can load certs from the data in the MokListRT
> > configuration table entry data in the same way that it loads certs
> > from the data returned by the EFI GetVariable() runtime call for the
> > MokListRT variable.
> >
> > This patch set does not remove the support for loading certs from the
> > EFI MOK variables into the platform key ring. However, if both the EFI
> > MOK configuration table and corresponding EFI MOK variables are present,
> > the MOK table is used as the source of MOK certs.
> >
> > The contents of the individual named MOK config table entries are
> > made available to user space as individual sysfs binary files,
> > which are read-only to root, under:
> >
> > /sys/firmware/efi/mok-variables/
> >
> > This enables an updated mokutil to provide support for:
> >
> > mokutil --list-enrolled
> >
> > such that it can provide accurate information regardless of whether
> > the MOK configuration table or MOK EFI variables were the source
> > for certs. Note that all modifications of MOK related state are still
> > initiated by mokutil via EFI variables.
> >
> > V2: Incorporate feedback from V1
> > Patch 01: efi: Support for MOK variable config table
> > - Minor update to change log; no code changes
> > Patch 02: integrity: Move import of MokListRT certs to a separate routine
> > - Clean up code flow in code moved to load_moklist_certs()
> > - Remove some unnecessary initialization of variables
> > Patch 03: integrity: Load certs from the EFI MOK config table
> > - Update required due to changes in patch 02.
> > - Remove unnecessary init of mokvar_entry in load_moklist_certs()
> >
> > V1:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200826034455.28707-1-lszubowi@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Lenny Szubowicz (3):
> > efi: Support for MOK variable config table
> > integrity: Move import of MokListRT certs to a separate routine
> > integrity: Load certs from the EFI MOK config table
> >
> > arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 1 +
> > arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 3 +
> > drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/firmware/efi/arm-init.c | 1 +
> > drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 6 +
> > drivers/firmware/efi/mokvar-table.c | 360 ++++++++++++++++++
> > include/linux/efi.h | 34 ++
> > security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c | 85 ++++-
> > 8 files changed, 472 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/mokvar-table.c
> >
>
> Thanks. I have tentatively queued these up in efi/next.
>
> Mimi, please let me know if you have any thoughts on 3/3, and whether
> your R-b on 2/3 [v1] implies that you are ok with the series going
> through the EFI tree.

Yes, Ard, that was the intent. I haven't reviewed the most recent
version.

Mimi