TPM2.0 PCR 8 changing with CoreOS grub

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Shiv B

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Jan 23, 2019, 12:58:48 PM1/23/19

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Hi,

I tried using grub from coreos (https://github.com/coreos/grub) since it has the changes to update the TPM2.0 pcrs. However, I see that after a couple of reboots the PCR 8 (ASCII PCR) is differing, which results in the failure to decrypt the LUKS partition.

Any reason why the PCR8 is changing ? It is used to measure the kernel command line, but I am not making any changes to the command line. Is the PCR 8 varying because of the grubenv ?

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Shiv

Benjamin Gilbert

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Jan 24, 2019, 7:57:21 AM1/24/19

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On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:58 PM Shiv B <shiv...@gmail.com> wrote:

I tried using grub from coreos (https://github.com/coreos/grub) since it has the changes to update the TPM2.0 pcrs. However, I see that after a couple of reboots the PCR 8 (ASCII PCR) is differing, which results in the failure to decrypt the LUKS partition.

Any reason why the PCR8 is changing ? It is used to measure the kernel command line, but I am not making any changes to the command line. Is the PCR 8 varying because of the grubenv ?

Hi Shiv,

Are you seeing this on CoreOS Container Linux, or on a different distro? On Container Linux, the kernel command line will change after the first boot, and also after every OS update.