Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v2 16/18] hw/firmware: Add Edk2Crypto and edk2_add_host_crypto_policy()

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Hi Eric,

On 3/8/19 3:16 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 3/7/19 7:32 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> The Edk2Crypto object is used to hold configuration values specific
>> to EDK2.
>>
>> The edk2_add_host_crypto_policy() function loads crypto policies
>> from the host, and register them as fw_cfg named file items.
>> So far only the 'https' policy is supported.
>>
>> An usercase example is the 'HTTPS Boof' feature of OVMF [*].
> 
> s/An/A/ since "user" is a pronounced or hard 'u' (English is funny, but
> the rule of thumb is you add the consonant only before a soft u, and not
> a pronounced one; as in "give an umbrella to a unicorn")

I appreciate the correction, thanks :)

>>
>> Usage example:
>>
>>   $ qemu-system-x86_64 \
>>       -object edk2_crypto,id=https,\
> 
> Might as well use --object (both spellings work for qemu, but since
> --object is the only spelling for qemu-img/qemu-nbd, being consistent
> between the lot is useful).

$ git grep -- ' -object ' | wc -l
83

^ cover various subsystems:

$ git grep -l -- ' -object '
docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt
docs/can.txt
docs/memory-hotplug.txt
docs/nvdimm.txt
docs/pr-manager.rst
docs/pvrdma.txt
docs/replay.txt
hw/virtio/vhost-user.c
include/authz/listfile.h
include/authz/pamacct.h
include/authz/simple.h
include/crypto/secret.h
include/crypto/tlscredsanon.h
include/crypto/tlscredsx509.h
qapi/misc.json
qemu-doc.texi
qemu-options.hx
target/i386/sev_i386.h
tests/bios-tables-test.c
tests/qemu-iotests/127
tests/qemu-iotests/200
tests/vhost-user-test.c


$ git grep -- ' --object ' | wc -l
252

^ mostly for the block subsystem:

$ git grep -l -- ' --object '
block/vxhs.c
include/crypto/tlscredspsk.h
qemu-doc.texi
qemu-img.texi
qemu-io.c
qemu-nbd.c
qemu-nbd.texi
tests/qemu-iotests/049
tests/qemu-iotests/049.out
tests/qemu-iotests/087
tests/qemu-iotests/134
tests/qemu-iotests/149.out
tests/qemu-iotests/158
tests/qemu-iotests/178
tests/qemu-iotests/188
tests/qemu-iotests/189
tests/qemu-iotests/198
tests/qemu-iotests/233

I'll change, but I'm not sure what is the default we should enforce...

> 
>>               ciphers=/etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/openssl.config,\
>>               cacerts=/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/edk2/cacerts.bin
> 
> (I really should follow through on my threat to teach QemuOpts to ignore
> whitespace after ','; but for this commit message, it's obvious the
> indentation has to be stripped for the command line to be valid)
> 
>>
>> (On Fedora these files are provided by the ca-certificates and
>> crypto-policies packages).
>>
>> [*]: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/OvmfPkg/README
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
>> ---