Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Fw: signed kernel modules? | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:52:33 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 23:36 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > No. I still don't know, why the kernel has to do this? You avoided to > answer this question already before.
Partly to protect against accidentally-corrupted modules causing damage. Partly to allow a sysadmin (or more likely an IT department) to enforce a policy that only known and approved modules shall be loaded onto machines which they're expected to support. Partly to allow other support providers to do likewise, or at least to _detect_ the fact that unsupported modules are loaded.
-- dwmw2
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