Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267740AbUJLTRt (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:17:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267708AbUJLTRc (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:17:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:62922 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267678AbUJLTQm (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:16:42 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20041012190826.GB31353@kroah.com> References: <20041012190826.GB31353@kroah.com> <30797.1092308768@redhat.com> <20040812111853.GB25950@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20040812200917.GD2952@kroah.com> <26280.1092388799@redhat.com> <27175.1095936746@redhat.com> <30591.1096451074@redhat.com> <10345.1097507482@redhat.com> <1097507755.318.332.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1097534090.16153.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1097570159.5788.1089.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> To: Greg KH Cc: David Woodhouse , "Rusty Russell (IBM)" , rusty@ozlabs.au.ibm.com.kroah.org, Arjan van de Ven , Joy Latten , lkml - Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Fw: signed kernel modules? User-Agent: EMH/1.14.1 SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:16:08 +0100 Message-ID: <3145.1097608568@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 15 > > I agree. We have to be able to detect improper header information for > unsigned modules today, nothing new there. So by only signing the > information that the kernel looks at, we should be fine. I'm writing an ELF checker to go with my module signature checker. I'll put it up for approval, flames, etc.. in a bit. As soon as I can persuade gdb that, yes, it _does_ want to debug 64-bit code... David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/