Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:22:44 +1000 (EST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd |
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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?
-- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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