From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] module: add syscall to load module from fd
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:04:19 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vcfu22s.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50500C5C.8060006@zytor.com>
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> On 09/06/2012 11:13 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Instead of (or in addition to) kernel module signing, being able to reason
>> about the origin of a kernel module would be valuable in situations
>> where an OS already trusts a specific file system, file, etc, due to
>> things like security labels or an existing root of trust to a partition
>> through things like dm-verity.
>>
>> This introduces a new syscall (currently only on x86), similar to
>> init_module, that has only two arguments. The first argument is used as
>> a file descriptor to the module and the second argument is a pointer to
>> the NULL terminated string of module arguments.
>>
>
> Please use the standard naming convention, which is an f- prefix (i.e.
> finit_module()).
Good point; I just did a replace here.
Thanks,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-12 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-06 18:13 [PATCH 1/2] module: add syscall to load module from fd Kees Cook
2012-09-06 18:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] security: introduce kernel_module_from_file hook Kees Cook
2012-09-07 0:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] module: add syscall to load module from fd Rusty Russell
2012-09-07 16:19 ` Kees Cook
2012-09-07 17:12 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-09-07 17:19 ` Kees Cook
2012-09-07 19:04 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-09-10 1:46 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-10 15:07 ` Kees Cook
2012-09-12 2:57 ` James Morris
2012-09-12 4:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-12 7:34 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2012-09-12 14:38 ` Kees Cook
2012-09-13 19:22 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-09-19 3:38 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-19 14:41 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-09-19 16:15 ` Kees Cook
2012-09-07 18:38 Kees Cook
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