linux-kernel - load_uefi_certs: Couldn't get size: 0x800000000000000e

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Date:   Fri, 4 Oct 2019 14:24:51 +0200
From:   Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
To:     Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
Cc:     linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: load_uefi_certs: Couldn't get size: 0x800000000000000e

Dear Josh,

On a Dell Latitude E7250 with a self-built Linux 5.4-rc1 the error message
below is printed on the screen.

    [    0.658664] Couldn't get size: 0x800000000000000e

Here are the message from the ring buffer (`dmesg`).

```
[    0.658329] calling  load_uefi_certs+0x0/0x217 @ 1
[    0.658472] integrity: Loading X.509 certificate: UEFI:db
[    0.658544] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011: a92902398e16c49778cd90f99e4f9ae17c55af53'
[    0.658545] integrity: Loading X.509 certificate: UEFI:db
[    0.658606] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011: 13adbf4309bd82709c8cd54f316ed522988a1bd4'
[    0.658664] Couldn't get size: 0x800000000000000e
[    0.658689] Couldn't get UEFI MokListRT
[    0.658768] initcall load_uefi_certs+0x0/0x217 returned 0 after 426 usecs
```

Could this error message be improved, to give the user a hint, what is wrong,
what the consequences are, and what should be done?

Should the message below be `pr_error`, and the other error debug?

    pr_info("Couldn't get UEFI MokListRT\n");

Please find the Linux messages and (`make savedefconfig`) configuration
attached.

Do you know more about the reason, and if the Linux code can handle it more
gracefully?

Commit 15ea0e1e (efi: Import certificates from UEFI Secure Boot) was already
added in Linux 5.0, and I do not remember seeing it with Debian’s default
Linux kernel. No idea, what is configured differently, or I just missed it.

Kind regards,

Paul

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