[PATCH v3] powerpc/pseries: detect secure and trusted boot state of the system.

Michal Suchánek msuchanek at suse.de
Fri Jul 17 18:35:21 AEST 2020


On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 03:58:01PM +1000, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Michal Suchánek <msuchanek at suse.de> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 07:52:01AM -0400, Nayna Jain wrote:
> >> The device-tree property to check secure and trusted boot state is
> >> different for guests(pseries) compared to baremetal(powernv).
> >> 
> >> This patch updates the existing is_ppc_secureboot_enabled() and
> >> is_ppc_trustedboot_enabled() functions to add support for pseries.
> >> 
> >> The secureboot and trustedboot state are exposed via device-tree property:
> >> /proc/device-tree/ibm,secure-boot and /proc/device-tree/ibm,trusted-boot
> >> 
> >> The values of ibm,secure-boot under pseries are interpreted as:
> >                                       ^^^
> >> 
> >> 0 - Disabled
> >> 1 - Enabled in Log-only mode. This patch interprets this value as
> >> disabled, since audit mode is currently not supported for Linux.
> >> 2 - Enabled and enforced.
> >> 3-9 - Enabled and enforcing; requirements are at the discretion of the
> >> operating system.
> >> 
> >> The values of ibm,trusted-boot under pseries are interpreted as:
> >                                        ^^^
> > These two should be different I suppose?
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you mean? They'll be documented in a future
> revision of the PAPR, once I get my act together and submit the
> relevant internal paperwork.

Nevermind, one talks about secure boot, the other about trusted boot.

Thanks

Michal


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