linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] MODSIGN: print appropriate status message when getting UEFI certificates list

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Date:   Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:40:45 +0800
From:   joeyli <jlee@...e.com>
To:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, linux-fs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] MODSIGN: print appropriate status message when
 getting UEFI certificates list

Hi James,

Thanks for your review.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:17:50AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 18:35 +0800, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> > When getting certificates list from UEFI variable, the original error
> > message shows the state number from UEFI firmware. It's hard to be
> > read by human. This patch changed the error message to show the
> > appropriate string.
> > 
> > The message will be showed as:
> > 
> > [    0.788529] MODSIGN: Couldn't get UEFI MokListRT: EFI_NOT_FOUND
> > [    0.788537] MODSIGN: Couldn't get UEFI MokListXRT: EFI_NOT_FOUND
> 
> I keep saying this, but these error messages need to be gated on the
> presence of shim for the non-shim secure boot case.  You can't assume
> the shim variables are there because they won't be in the case of a
> fully owned system.

I will change the message to pr_debug.

Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee