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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Kees Cook wrote:

> Earlier proposals for appending signatures to kernel modules would not be
> useful in Chrome OS, since it would involve adding an additional set of
> keys to our kernel and builds for no good reason: we already trust the
> contents of our root filesystem. We don't need to verify those kernel
> modules a second time. Having to do signature checking on module loading
> would slow us down and be redundant. All we need to know is where a
> module is coming from so we can say yes/no to loading it.

Just out of interest, has anyone else expressed interest in using this
feature?



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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>


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