Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267713AbUJNWqq (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:46:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268126AbUJNWnu (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:43:50 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:19598 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267713AbUJNWdX (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:33:23 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: <1097626296.4013.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1096411448.3230.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1092403984.29463.11.camel@bach> <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> <27277.1097702318@redhat.com> <16349.1097752349@redhat.com> <1097755890.318.700.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1097764251.318.724.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1097789060.5788.2001.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <1097790753.5788.2031.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> To: Roman Zippel Cc: David Woodhouse , "Rusty Russell (IBM)" , Greg KH , 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: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:32:32 +0100 Message-ID: <3401.1097793152@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 567 Lines: 15 Roman Zippel wrote: > This really doesn't answer why it has to be done in the kernel. As is it > doesn't protect against anything and doing it in user space is as > effective. Where do you do it in userspace? glibc? uclibc? insmod is too early and is not the only way modules are loaded. 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/