Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] initramfs: add support for xattrs in the initial ram disk | From | Mimi Zohar <> | Date | Sun, 12 May 2019 08:52:47 -0400 |
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On Sun, 2019-05-12 at 11:17 +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 01:24:17PM +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote: > > This proposal consists in marshaling pathnames and xattrs in a file called > > .xattr-list. They are unmarshaled by the CPIO parser after all files have > > been extracted. > > Couldn't this parsing of the .xattr-list file and the setting of the xattrs > be done equivalently by the initramfs' /init? Why is kernel involvement > actually required here?
It's too late. The /init itself should be signed and verified.
Mimi
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