Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] module: add syscall to load module from fd | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:04:19 +0930 |
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> On 09/06/2012 11:13 AM, Kees Cook wrote: >> Instead of (or in addition to) kernel module signing, being able to reason >> about the origin of a kernel module would be valuable in situations >> where an OS already trusts a specific file system, file, etc, due to >> things like security labels or an existing root of trust to a partition >> through things like dm-verity. >> >> This introduces a new syscall (currently only on x86), similar to >> init_module, that has only two arguments. The first argument is used as >> a file descriptor to the module and the second argument is a pointer to >> the NULL terminated string of module arguments. >> > > Please use the standard naming convention, which is an f- prefix (i.e. > finit_module()).
Good point; I just did a replace here.
Thanks, Rusty.
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