| From | David Howells <> | Subject | Firmware signing -- Re: [PATCH 00/27] security, efi: Add kernel lockdown | Date | Thu, 02 Nov 2017 22:04:19 +0000 |
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Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Only validly signed device firmware may be loaded. > > fw_get_filesystem_firmware() calls kernel_read_file_from_path() to > read the firmware, which calls into the security hooks. Is there > another place that validates the firmware signatures. I'm not seeing > which patch requires firmware to be signed?
Luis has a set of patches for this. However, I'm not sure if that's going anywhere at the moment. Possibly I should remove this from the manpage for the moment.
David
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