Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:32:54 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Load keys from signed PE binaries |
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 03:31:19PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:56:44AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > [..] > > So no. The PE file thing makes no sense what-so-ever. What you mention > > we can already do, and we already do it *better*. > > IIUC, PE/COFF signature verification bits can be useful for verifying > the signature of PE/COFF signed bzImage. This verification will be > required before kexec decides to load the kernel.
Only if the kexec validation's being done in kernel. We'd need agreement on that before it's a justification.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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