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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2023-11-15 14:52:36 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2023-11-15 14:53:11 +0100
commit7eff3e2cdbb9d2ebfed1290a4e351521e34120f9 (patch)
treee258c48348b0695b54a7fd00b62992f6e0ba5c6a
parentboot: measure config first, only then parse (diff)
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NEWS: adjust indentation
A non-breaking space is used between "PCR" and the number. I did search&replace on the whole file, so that when people select&paste later, they are more likely to use the same format.
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@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 255 in spe:
journal, where they however were subject to rotation and similar.
* A new component "systemd-pcrlock" has been added that allows managing
- local TPM2 PCR policies for PCRs 0-7 and similar, which are hard to
+ local TPM2 PCR policies for PCRs 0-7 and similar, which are hard to
predict by the OS vendor because of the inherently local nature of
what measurements they contain, such as firmware versions of the
system and extension cards and suchlike. pcrlock can predict PCR
@@ -221,11 +221,11 @@ CHANGES WITH 255 in spe:
set-timeout option, to allow completely disabling the boot menu,
including the hotkey.
- * systemd-boot will now measure the content of loader.conf in TPM2 PCR
- 5.
+ * systemd-boot will now measure the content of loader.conf in TPM2
+ PCR 5.
* systemd-stub will now concatenate the content of all kernel
- command-line addons before measuring them in TPM2 PCR 12, in a single
+ command-line addons before measuring them in TPM2 PCR 12, in a single
measurement, instead of measuring them individually.
* systemd-stub will now measure and load Devicetree Blob addons, which
@@ -250,8 +250,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 255 in spe:
* The 90-loaderentry kernel-install hook now supports installing device
trees.
- * kernel-install now supports the --json=, --root=, --image= and
- --image-policy= options for the inspect verb.
+ * kernel-install now supports the --json=, --root=, --image=, and
+ --image-policy= options for the inspect verb.
* kernel-install now supports new list and add-all verbs. The former
lists all installed kernel images (if those are available in
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 254:
kernel command line it invokes. This is useful for VMMs such as qemu
to pass additional kernel command lines into the system even when
booting via full UEFI. The contents of the field are measured into
- TPM PCR 12.
+ TPM PCR 12.
* The KERNEL_INSTALL_LAYOUT= setting for kernel-install gained a new
value "auto". With this value, a kernel will be automatically
@@ -1463,7 +1463,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 253:
manager is also enabled and used.
* Some compatibility helpers were dropped: EmergencyAction= in the user
- manager, as well as measuring kernel command line into PCR 8 in
+ manager, as well as measuring kernel command line into PCR 8 in
systemd-stub, along with the -Defi-tpm-pcr-compat compile-time
option.
@@ -1868,8 +1868,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 253:
specified via root=.
* systemd-pcrphase gained new options --machine-id and --file-system=
- to measure the machine-id and mount point information into PCR 15. New
- service unit files systemd-pcrmachine.service and
+ to measure the machine-id and mount point information into PCR 15.
+ New service unit files systemd-pcrmachine.service and
systemd-pcrfs@.service have been added that invoke the tool with
these switches during early boot.
@@ -2127,7 +2127,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 252 🎃:
course users can always enroll non-TPM ways to unlock the volume.)
* systemd-pcrphase is a new tool that is invoked at six places during
- system runtime, and measures additional words into TPM2 PCR 11, to
+ system runtime, and measures additional words into TPM2 PCR 11, to
mark milestones of the boot process. This allows binding access to
specific TPM2-encrypted secrets to specific phases of the boot
process. (Example: LUKS2 disk encryption key only accessible in the
@@ -2187,7 +2187,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 252 🎃:
associated service unit, if any.
* Boot phase transitions (start initrd → exit initrd → boot complete →
- shutdown) will be measured into TPM2 PCR 11, so that secrets can be
+ shutdown) will be measured into TPM2 PCR 11, so that secrets can be
bound to a specific runtime phase. E.g.: a LUKS encryption key can be
unsealed only in the initrd.
@@ -2252,13 +2252,13 @@ CHANGES WITH 252 🎃:
(e.g. comparisons for empty strings). Boot counting is now part of
the main specification.
- * New PCRs measurements are performed during boot: PCR 11 for the
- kernel+initrd combo, PCR 13 for any sysext images. If a measurement
+ * New PCRs measurements are performed during boot: PCR 11 for the
+ kernel+initrd combo, PCR 13 for any sysext images. If a measurement
took place this is now reported to userspace via the new
StubPcrKernelImage and StubPcrInitRDSysExts EFI variables.
* As before, systemd-stub will measure kernel parameters and system
- credentials into PCR 12. It will now report this fact via the
+ credentials into PCR 12. It will now report this fact via the
StubPcrKernelParameters EFI variable to userspace.
* The UEFI monotonic boot counter is now included in the updated random
@@ -2703,17 +2703,17 @@ CHANGES WITH 251:
seen with 250. For newer kernels, non-x86 systems, or older x86
systems, there should be no visible changes.
- * sd-boot will now measure the kernel command line into TPM PCR 12
- rather than PCR 8. This improves usefulness of the measurements on
+ * sd-boot will now measure the kernel command line into TPM PCR 12
+ rather than PCR 8. This improves usefulness of the measurements on
systems where sd-boot is chainloaded from Grub. Grub measures all
- commands its executes into PCR 8, which makes it very hard to use
- reasonably, hence separate ourselves from that and use PCR 12
+ commands its executes into PCR 8, which makes it very hard to use
+ reasonably, hence separate ourselves from that and use PCR 12
instead, which is what certain Ubuntu editions already do. To retain
compatibility with systems running older systemd systems a new meson
option 'efi-tpm-pcr-compat' has been added (which defaults to false).
- If enabled, the measurement is done twice: into the new-style PCR 12
- *and* the old-style PCR 8. It's strongly advised to migrate all users
- to PCR 12 for this purpose in the long run, as we intend to remove
+ If enabled, the measurement is done twice: into the new-style PCR 12
+ *and* the old-style PCR 8. It's strongly advised to migrate all users
+ to PCR 12 for this purpose in the long run, as we intend to remove
this compatibility feature in two years' time.
* busctl capture now writes output in the newer pcapng format instead