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authorLaszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>2020-06-15 16:45:14 +0200
committermergify[bot] <37929162+mergify[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>2020-06-16 20:31:17 +0000
commit82808b422617ea5d1e62f5c5741eb8ce9dff4a7b (patch)
treebb98b2c6592ab6326050dc6b783356ee9c1be276 /MdeModulePkg/Universal/StatusCodeHandler/RuntimeDxe/SerialStatusCodeWorker.c
parent493f2c69311806a214de2b3db7fdf7bc9162ea81 (diff)
Revert "OvmfPkg: use generic QEMU image loader for secure boot enabled ..."
This reverts commit ced77332cab626f35fbdb36630be27303d289d79. The command virt-install --location NETWORK-URL downloads the vmlinuz and initrd files from the remote OS tree, and passes them to the guest firmware via fw_cfg. When used with IA32 / X64 guests, virt-install expects the guest firmware to do two things, at the same time: - launch the fw_cfg kernel image even if the latter does not pass SB verification (SB checking is supposed to be bypassed entirely in favor of the Linux/x86 Boot Protocol), - still let the guest kernel perceive SB as enabled. Commit ced77332cab6 prevented this, by removing the Linux/x86 Boot Protocol from such an OVMF image that was built with SECURE_BOOT_ENALBE. While that's the right thing in theory, in practice "virt-install --location NETWORK-URL" is entrenched, and we shouldn't break it. We can tolerate the Linux/x86 Boot Protocol as a one-of-a-kind SB bypass for direct-booted kernels, because: - the fw_cfg content comes from QEMU, and the guest is already at QEMU's mercy, - in the guest, OS boots after the initial installation will use "shim" rather than an fw_cfg kernel, which we can consider somewhat similar to "Audit Mode / Deployed Mode" (~ trust for install, lock down after). Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com> Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com> Message-Id: <20200615144514.24597-1-lersek@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> [lersek@redhat.com: truncate the subject line, originally auto-generated by git-revert, to pacify PatchCheck.py]
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