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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd
    On 09/20/2012 07:22 PM, James Morris wrote:
    > 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?
    >
    we are looking at using it in apparmor as well



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