On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 06:18:25PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> In QEMU commit range 4abf70a661a5..69699f3055a5, Phil implemented a QEMU
> facility for exposing the host-side TLS cipher suite configuration to
> OVMF. The purpose is to control the permitted ciphers in the guest's UEFI
> HTTPS boot. This complements the forwarding of the host-side crypto policy
> from the host to the guest -- the other facet was the set of CA
> certificates (for which p11-kit patches had been upstreamed, on the host
> side).
> 
> Mention the new command line options in "OvmfPkg/README".

Looks good to me :)

Reviewed-by: Gary Lin <g...@suse.com>

> 
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@arm.com>
> Cc: Gary Lin <g...@suse.com>
> Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>
> Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>
> Ref: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2852
> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  OvmfPkg/README | 24 ++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/README b/OvmfPkg/README
> index 3dd28474ead4..2009d9d29796 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/README
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/README
> @@ -294,67 +294,73 @@ and encrypted connection.
>
>    You can also append a certificate to the existing list with the following
>    command:
>
>    efisiglist -i <old certdb> -a <cert file> -o <new certdb>
>
>    NOTE: You may need the patch to make efisiglist generate the correct 
> header.
>    (https://github.com/rhboot/pesign/pull/40)
>
>  * Besides the trusted certificates, it's also possible to configure the 
> trusted
>    cipher suites for HTTPS through another fw_cfg entry: 
> etc/edk2/https/ciphers.
>
> -  -fw_cfg name=etc/edk2/https/ciphers,file=<cipher suites>
> -
>    OVMF expects a binary UINT16 array which comprises the cipher suites HEX
>    IDs(*4). If the cipher suite list is given, OVMF will choose the cipher
>    suite from the intersection of the given list and the built-in cipher
>    suites. Otherwise, OVMF just chooses whatever proper cipher suites from the
>    built-in ones.
>
> -  While the tool(*5) to create the cipher suite array is still under
> -  development, the array can be generated with the following script:
> +  Using QEMU 5.1 or later, QEMU can expose the ordered list of permitted TLS
> +  cipher suites from the host side to OVMF:
> +
> +  -object tls-cipher-suites,id=mysuite0,priority=@SYSTEM \
> +  -fw_cfg name=etc/edk2/https/ciphers,gen_id=mysuite0
> +
> +  (Refer to the QEMU manual and to
> +  <https://gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html> for more
> +  information on the "priority" property.)
> +
> +  Using QEMU 5.0 or earlier, the array has to be passed from a file:
> +
> +  -fw_cfg name=etc/edk2/https/ciphers,file=<cipher suites>
> +
> +  whose contents can be generated with the following script, for example:
>
>    export LC_ALL=C
>    openssl ciphers -V \
>    | sed -r -n \
>       -e 's/^ *0x([0-9A-F]{2}),0x([0-9A-F]{2}) - .*$/\\\\x\1 \\\\x\2/p' \
>    | xargs -r -- printf -- '%b' > ciphers.bin
>
>    This script creates ciphers.bin that contains all the cipher suite IDs
>    supported by openssl according to the local host configuration.
>
>    You may want to enable only a limited set of cipher suites. Then, you
>    should check the validity of your list first:
>
>    openssl ciphers -V <cipher list>
>
>    If all the cipher suites in your list map to the proper HEX IDs, go ahead
>    to modify the script and execute it:
>
>    export LC_ALL=C
>    openssl ciphers -V <cipher list> \
>    | sed -r -n \
>       -e 's/^ *0x([0-9A-F]{2}),0x([0-9A-F]{2}) - .*$/\\\\x\1 \\\\x\2/p' \
>    | xargs -r -- printf -- '%b' > ciphers.bin
>
> -* In the future (after release 2.12), QEMU should populate both above fw_cfg
> -  files automatically from the local host configuration, and enable the user
> -  to override either with dedicated options or properties.
> -
>  (*1) See "31.4.1 Signature Database" in UEFI specification 2.7 errata A.
>  (*2) p11-kit: https://github.com/p11-glue/p11-kit/
>  (*3) efisiglist: 
> https://github.com/rhboot/pesign/blob/master/src/efisiglist.c
>  (*4) 
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS#Cipher_names_correspondence_table
> -(*5) update-crypto-policies: 
> https://gitlab.com/redhat-crypto/fedora-crypto-policies
>
>  === OVMF Flash Layout ===
>
>  Like all current IA32/X64 system designs, OVMF's firmware device (rom/flash)
>  appears in QEMU's physical address space just below 4GB (0x100000000).
>
>  OVMF supports building a 1MB, 2MB or 4MB flash image (see the DSC files for 
> the
>  FD_SIZE_1MB, FD_SIZE_2MB, FD_SIZE_4MB build defines). The base address for 
> the
>  1MB image in QEMU physical memory is 0xfff00000. The base address for the 2MB
>  image is 0xffe00000. The base address for the 4MB image is 0xffc00000.
>
>  Using the 1MB or 2MB image, the layout of the firmware device in memory looks
> -- 
> 2.19.1.3.g30247aa5d201
> 


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