For instance, we can tell the user that UEFI UpdateCapsule is disabled in the
system firmware, or that efivarfs is not mounted. This is much better than
creating "dummy" devices which are really just hacks around the problem because
no better API existed. THe dummy devices cause as many problems as they solve.
Plugins have to set FWUPD_PLUGIN_FLAG_USER_WARNING if a warning should be shown
to the user, and only one warning will be shown of each failure type.
It is expected that GUI clients like gnome-software and gnome-firmware would use
this API to notify the user the localized message for why firmware updates are
not being shown.
Fixes https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/2456
This was an overloaded use of UpdateMessage that didn't make sense.
It doesn't affect the functionality of updating, just the security.
Hints about why the TPM PCR0 reconstruction failed should go
to the wiki page not the device.
To do this, rely on the AppStream ID to map to a translated string (providing a
fallback for clients that do not care) and switch the free-form result string
into a set of enumerated values that can be translated.
This fixes some of the problems where some things have to be enabled to "pass"
and other attributes have to be some other state. For cases where we want the
user to "do" something, provide a URL to a wiki page that we update out-of-band
of fwupd releases.
The HSI specification is currently incomplete and in active development.
Sample output for my Lenovo P50 Laptop:
Host Security ID: HSI:2+UA!
HSI-1
✔ UEFI dbx: OK
✔ TPM: v2.0
✔ SPI: Write disabled
✔ SPI: Lock enabled
✔ SPI: SMM required
✔ UEFI Secure Boot: Enabled
HSI-2
✔ TPM Reconstruction: Matched PCR0 reading
HSI-3
✘ Linux Kernel S3 Sleep: Deep sleep available
HSI-4
✘ Intel CET: Unavailable
Runtime Suffix -U
✔ Firmware Updates: Newest release is 8 months old
Runtime Suffix -A
✔ Firmware Attestation: OK
Runtime Suffix -!
✔ fwupd plugins: OK
✔ Linux Kernel: OK
✔ Linux Kernel: Locked down
✘ Linux Swap: Not encrypted
This exports FuSecurityAttrs into libfwupdplugin so that we can pass the plugins
this object rather than a 'bare' GPtrArray. This greatly simplifies the object
ownership, and also allows us to check the object type before adding.
In the future we could also check for duplicate appstream IDs or missing
properties at insertion time.
This change also changes the fu_plugin_add_security_attrs() to not return an
error. This forces the plugin to handle the error, storing the failure in the
attribute itself.
Only the plugin know if a missing file it needs to read indicates a runtime
problem or a simple failure to obtain a specific HSI level.
If the measurements are missing but it's a UEFI system, it's a good indication
that the user has secure boot turned off.
Notify the user on the UEFI device through a non-fatal `UpdateMessage`
To accomplish this, move fu-uefi-vars into the plugin library for other plugins to use
In theory, these should always match the reported PCRx values from the TPM.
If the reconstructed event log checksum does not match the TPM value then
something is either implemented wrongly, or something bad has happened.
