Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 01/10] Secure boot: Add new capability
From: joeyli <jlee@suse.com>
To: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
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Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:15:42 +0800
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Hi Matt, 

Sorry for bother you!

I didn't see this Matthew's patchset merged in EFI git tree. Do you have
plan to merge it? Or those patches need wait different subsystem leaders
merge.


Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee

於 四，2012-09-20 於 10:40 -0400，Matthew Garrett 提到：
> Secure boot adds certain policy requirements, including that root must not
> be able to do anything that could cause the kernel to execute arbitrary code.
> The simplest way to handle this would seem to be to add a new capability
> and gate various functionality on that. We'll then strip it from the initial
> capability set if required.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/capability.h | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h
> index d10b7ed..4345bc8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/capability.h
> +++ b/include/linux/capability.h
> @@ -364,7 +364,11 @@ struct cpu_vfs_cap_data {
>  
>  #define CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND    36
>  
> -#define CAP_LAST_CAP         CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND
> +/* Allow things that trivially permit root to modify the running kernel */
> +
> +#define CAP_COMPROMISE_KERNEL  37
> +
> +#define CAP_LAST_CAP         CAP_COMPROMISE_KERNEL
>  
>  #define cap_valid(x) ((x) >= 0 && (x) <= CAP_LAST_CAP)
>  


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