linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] efi: Allow the "db" UEFI variable to be suppressed

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1812120548480.11653@namei.org>
Date:   Wed, 12 Dec 2018 05:49:00 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:     Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.ibm.com>
cc:     linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zohar@...ux.ibm.com,
        dhowells@...hat.com, jforbes@...hat.com,
        seth.forshee@...onical.com, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org, vgoyal@...hat.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
        mpe@...erman.id.au, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] efi: Allow the "db" UEFI variable to be
 suppressed

On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, Nayna Jain wrote:

> From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
> 
> If a user tells shim to not use the certs/hashes in the UEFI db variable
> for verification purposes, shim will set a UEFI variable called
> MokIgnoreDB. Have the uefi import code look for this and ignore the db
> variable if it is found.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>


Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.morris@...rosoft.com>


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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>