Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:15:24 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] module: add syscall to load module from fd |
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On 09/06/2012 11:13 AM, Kees Cook wrote: > Instead of (or in addition to) kernel module signing, being able to reason > about the origin of a kernel module would be valuable in situations > where an OS already trusts a specific file system, file, etc, due to > things like security labels or an existing root of trust to a partition > through things like dm-verity. > > This introduces a new syscall (currently only on x86), similar to > init_module, that has only two arguments. The first argument is used as > a file descriptor to the module and the second argument is a pointer to > the NULL terminated string of module arguments. >
Please use the standard naming convention, which is an f- prefix (i.e. finit_module()).
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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