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

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Tue Jan 24 2017 - 12:15:56 EST


On 11 January 2017 at 15:05, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Apologies for the tardiness. I intend to look into these tomorrow.