Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: RFC: sign the modules at install time | Date | Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:50:30 +1030 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes: > So signing is the nice flexible option, and technically the right > thing to do.
Meh.... It's 52k of extra text to get that 'nice flexible'; 1% of my kernel image. That's a lot of bug free code.
> (Side note: I hope people realize that the random key is generated > with a 100-year lifespan. So if you build a kernel today, you do > potentially have a "year-2112 problem". I'm not horribly worried, but > I *am* a bit worried about 32-bit time_t overflow and I hope 32-bit > openssl doesn't do anything odd)
Yep, David's original patch had that problem; he fixed the kernel's x509 handling to use struct tm, not time_t, and now it Just Works.
Cheers, Rusty.
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