Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:01:23 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting. |
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 12:04:05PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:01:32 +0200, Jiri Kosina said: > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > what stops an out of tree module from setting that flag ? > > > > What stops virtualbox developers from renaming the module in every > > release? That's the same story. > > > > The only fool-proof way of doing is indeed is the GPG-signing thing. > > It would also be a second in-tree user for the kernel MPI library code that > somebody posted recently... Just sayin' ;)
Ah, that is a good idea as some systems do want to gpg sign kernel modules, I would love it if someone dug up the Red Hat patches, ported it to the in-kernel mpi library (which I think will be in 3.2) and got it merged.
Actually, anyone have any pointers to the Red Hat patch, I might consider doing this myself as I wrote the first gpg signed kernel code years ago and I would like to see this finally merged.
greg k-h
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