Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:04:09 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services |
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On 12/05/2012 04:57 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > >> I don't think there is anything security-sensitive about that >> information, at least not to root. I could be wrong, of course; I >> wouldn't mind security people telling me about that. > > I don't think there's anything at present, but we'll want to pass the hibernation encryption key from the bootloader to the kernel in the near future. setup_data seems like the easiest way to do that. >
And that presumably would be something that cannot be exposed to root? If so we may want to use one of the bits in the setup_data type field as a security flag, perhaps...
-hpa
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