EFI test failure

[Simon Glass]

Hi Heinrich,

On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 at 14:19, Heinrich Schuchardt
<heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com> wrote:
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> Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> schrieb am Sa., 6. Aug. 2022, 20:21:
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>> Hi Heinrich,
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>> I see this in the test_efi_bootmgr test:
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>> cp: cannot open '/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-122-generic' for reading: Permission denied
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>> Does it really need read access to the kernel? On my Ubuntu 20.04 machine that seems to be missing.
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>> Regards,
>> Simon
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> Yes, the virtual machine used to create the disk image used in the test requires a copy of the kernel.
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> The security team of Canonical prefers to make the kernel non-readable for normal users. Just chmod your kernel.

Does it really need the kernel or could it be a dummy file?

Regards,
Simon