From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
pjones@redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC: sign the modules at install time
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:50:30 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txtrpb1t.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFy677k6zvkc9n_2e6OEmOx-S1AYbOumkUOSkrE8Q+aUKw@mail.gmail.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-19 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-17 20:36 RFC: sign the modules at install time Linus Torvalds
2012-10-17 22:19 ` David Howells
2012-10-17 22:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18 0:54 ` Greg KH
2012-10-18 3:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18 3:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18 4:34 ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-18 17:16 ` Greg KH
2012-10-18 4:31 ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-18 12:11 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-18 16:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-19 0:20 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2012-10-19 11:21 ` David Howells
2012-10-21 23:51 ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-20 16:41 ` Romain Francoise
2012-10-20 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-17 22:26 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-17 23:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-17 23:20 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-17 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-17 23:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18 0:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-17 23:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18 0:13 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-18 4:41 ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-18 1:17 ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-18 3:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18 5:34 ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-18 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18 19:58 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-19 0:48 ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-19 11:44 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-19 1:16 ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-19 11:49 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-19 1:23 ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-19 3:21 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-19 11:25 ` David Howells
2012-10-19 11:30 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-19 11:40 ` Alexander Holler
2012-10-20 3:53 ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-19 19:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-19 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-22 0:28 ` Rusty Russell
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2012-10-18 21:31 George Spelvin
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