Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932191Ab2JEKSj (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2012 06:18:39 -0400 Received: from tundra.namei.org ([65.99.196.166]:58102 "EHLO tundra.namei.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932095Ab2JEKSh (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2012 06:18:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 20:19:03 +1000 (EST) From: James Morris To: Kees Cook cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Rusty Russell , Mimi Zohar , Serge Hallyn , Arnd Bergmann , James Morris , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] security: introduce kernel_module_from_file hook In-Reply-To: <1349382154-9804-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> Message-ID: References: <1349382154-9804-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> <1349382154-9804-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LRH 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 909 Lines: 24 On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Kees Cook wrote: > Now that kernel module origins can be reasoned about, provide a hook to > the LSMs to make policy decisions about the module file. This will let > Chrome OS enforce that loadable kernel modules can only come from its > read-only hash-verified root filesystem. Other LSMs can, for example, > read extended attributes for signatures, etc. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook > Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn > Acked-by: Eric Paris > Acked-by: Mimi Zohar Acked-by: James Morris -- James Morris -- 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/