linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Allow guest access to EFI confidential computing secret area

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Date:   Wed, 2 Feb 2022 07:10:02 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:     James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Dov Murik <dovmurik@...ux.ibm.com>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@....com>,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Scull <ascull@...gle.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
        Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
        Lenny Szubowicz <lszubowi@...hat.com>,
        Peter Gonda <pgonda@...gle.com>,
        Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum <tobin@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Jim Cadden <jcadden@....com>,
        Daniele Buono <dbuono@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.ibm.com>,
        dougmill@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, gcwilson@...ux.ibm.com,
        gjoyce@....com, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        dja@...ens.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Allow guest access to EFI confidential computing
 secret area

On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 04:01:57AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 09:24:50AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2022-02-01 at 14:50 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > > You all need to work together to come up with a unified place for
> > > this and stop making it platform-specific.
> 
> We're talking about things that have massively different semantics.

I see lots of different platforms trying to provide access to their
"secure" firmware data to userspace in different ways.  That feels to me
like they are the same thing that userspace would care about in a
unified way.

Unless we expeect userspace tools to have to be platform-specific for
all of this?  That does not seem wise.

what am I missing here?

thanks,

greg k-h