Re: Fw: signed kernel modules?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Oct 14 2004 - 19:51:34 EST


On Mer, 2004-10-13 at 23:40, Rusty Russell (IBM) wrote:
> > Whoops bang "num 0 elements". That check set isn't safe standalone
>
> Thanks, Alan.
>
> I'd appreciate your opinion on the issue at hand. Is it worth 600 lines
> of ELF verification and canonicalization code so we can strip modules
> without altering the signature?

I'm unconvinced at the moment, it seems it would be easier to write the
neccessary code to do this in userspace, and then sign the canonicalised
module so that the kernel interface is small and clean.

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