| Subject | Re: Firmware signing -- Re: [PATCH 00/27] security, efi: Add kernel lockdown | From | Mimi Zohar <> | Date | Thu, 02 Nov 2017 18:10:41 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 22:04 +0000, David Howells wrote: > Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > 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? > > Luis has a set of patches for this. However, I'm not sure if that's going > anywhere at the moment. Possibly I should remove this from the manpage for > the moment.
Or reflect that IMA-appraisal, if enabled, will enforce firmware being validly signed.
Mimi
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