Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 May 2019 17:31:05 +0200 | From | Dominik Brodowski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] initramfs: add support for xattrs in the initial ram disk |
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On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 03:18:16AM -0700, hpa@zytor.com wrote: > > Couldn't this parsing of the .xattr-list file and the setting of the xattrs > > be done equivalently by the initramfs' /init? Why is kernel involvement > > actually required here? > > There are a lot of things that could/should be done that way...
Indeed... so why not try to avoid adding more such "things", and keeping them in userspace (or in a fork_usermode_blob)?
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 08:52:47AM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote: > It's too late. The /init itself should be signed and verified.
Could you elaborate a bit more about the threat model, and why deferring this to the initramfs is too late?
Thanks, Dominik
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