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From: Petko Manolov <petkan@mip-labs.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Joey Lee <jlee@suse.de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon@kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>,
	Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>,
	keyrings@linux-nfs.org, Abelardo Ricart III <aricart@memnix.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Subject: Re: [RFD] linux-firmware key arrangement for firmware signing
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 19:51:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150521165101.GI18164@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrX3krCsqCLvLYx1QdnjFK=R8FF7ta=vozDcGYSTUHvSrA@mail.gmail.com>

On 15-05-21 09:39:50, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> It's also a performance cost because the average user of this signature stuff 
> doesn't actually want IMA, and IMA is checking the wrong think anyway.  
> IMA/EVM tells us "this file validly belongs in /lib/modules/whatever according 
> to whomever we trust for the filesystem".  We want to check "is this data, 
> regardless of where it was read from, a trusted module".

IMA-appraise does not care where the file comes from (although it may be 
persuaded to) and verifies file's data and meta-data against a signature.  I 
guess you should actually read the code. :)


		Petko

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-21 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-19 20:02 [RFD] linux-firmware key arrangement for firmware signing Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-19 20:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-19 20:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 22:11   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-19 22:40     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 23:30   ` Julian Calaby
2015-05-19 23:42     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-20  0:39       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-20  0:41         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 22:26           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-21 23:15             ` Casey Schaufler
2015-05-21 15:51   ` David Howells
2015-05-21 16:30     ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-21 16:39     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 16:51       ` Petko Manolov [this message]
2015-05-21 16:55         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 17:44           ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 16:43     ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 16:48       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 16:58         ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 16:59       ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-19 21:48 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-19 22:19   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-19 23:37     ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-20  0:22       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-20  1:06         ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-20  1:29           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-20  2:05             ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-20  2:10               ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-20 15:49                 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-20 16:08         ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-20 14:04 ` Seth Forshee
2015-05-20 16:24   ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-05-20 16:46     ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21  4:41       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-21  5:41         ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21  6:14           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-21 13:05             ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-21 15:45               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-21 15:53                 ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 16:57                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-26 17:08                   ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-05-26 19:15                     ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-26 19:52                     ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-26 23:06                   ` David Howells
2015-05-21 16:03                 ` Woodhouse, David
2015-05-21 16:22                   ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-21 16:31                     ` Woodhouse, David
2015-05-21 17:02                   ` gregkh
2015-05-21 17:14                     ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 18:23                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-21 18:30                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-21 19:32                     ` Woodhouse, David
2015-05-21 17:49                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-21 14:45             ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-21 22:50     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-20 20:35   ` Kyle McMartin
2015-05-20 15:08 ` David Howells
2015-05-20 15:47   ` Seth Forshee
2015-05-21 16:23   ` David Howells
2015-05-20 15:14 ` David Howells

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