Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:37:57 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: Fw: signed kernel modules? |
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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> 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.
OK, so why no integrity-checking code for the kernel itself? Surely it too could be accidentally corrupted...
--Chuck Ebbert 15-Oct-04 11:13:15 - 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/
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