Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] module: add syscall to load module from fd | From | Mimi Zohar <> | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:22:16 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 17:04 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > "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.
Have you pushed out the changes? And if so, to where?
thanks,
Mimi
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