2014-11-07 04:18:00

by Michael Marineau

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Subject: [PATCH] Document correct module signature kernel parameter

The parameter is module.sig_enforce, not enforcemodulesig. The latter
appears to be from before this functionality was merged into mainline.

Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/module-signing.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/module-signing.txt b/Documentation/module-signing.txt
index 09c2382..6e5262e 100644
--- a/Documentation/module-signing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/module-signing.txt
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ signature checking is all done within the kernel.
NON-VALID SIGNATURES AND UNSIGNED MODULES
=========================================

-If CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is enabled or enforcemodulesig=1 is supplied on
+If CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is enabled or module.sig_enforce=1 is supplied on
the kernel command line, the kernel will only load validly signed modules
for which it has a public key. Otherwise, it will also load modules that are
unsigned. Any module for which the kernel has a key, but which proves to have
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2.0.4