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Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <8b12f1d28d3859467c3b5f6bc352038ce7627e54.camel@HansenPartnership.com> References: <8b12f1d28d3859467c3b5f6bc352038ce7627e54.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20260131073636.65494-1-mcaju95@gmail.com> <20260113-module-hashes-v4-0-0b932db9b56b@weissschuh.net> <2316630.1769965788@warthog.procyon.org.uk> To: James Bottomley Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Mihai-Drosi =?utf-8?Q?C=C3=A2ju?= , linux@weissschuh.net, arnd@arndb.de, arnout@bzzt.net, atomlin@atomlin.com, bigeasy@linutronix.de, chleroy@kernel.org, christian@heusel.eu, corbet@lwn.net, coxu@redhat.com, da.gomez@kernel.org, da.gomez@samsung.com, dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com, eric.snowberg@oracle.com, f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com, jmorris@namei.org, kpcyrd@archlinux.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, lkp@intel.com, maddy@linux.ibm.com, mattia@mapreri.org, mcgrof@kernel.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, nathan@kernel.org, naveen@kernel.org, nicolas.bouchinet@oss.cyber.gouv.fr, nicolas.schier@linux.dev, npiggin@gmail.com, nsc@kernel.org, paul@paul-moore.com, petr.pavlu@suse.com, roberto.sassu@huawei.com, samitolvanen@google.com, serge@hallyn.com, xiujianfeng@huawei.com, zohar@linux.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/17] module: Introduce hash-based integrity checking X-Mailing-List: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Archive: , List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:22:52 +0000 Message-ID: <2546011.1770106972@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.0 on 10.30.177.12 James Bottomley wrote: > > There is another issue too: If you have a static private key that you > > use to sign modules (and probably other things), someone will likely > > give you a GPL request to get it. > > The SFC just lost that exact point in the Vizio trial, so I think > you're wrong on this under US law at least. There's no general ability > under GPLv2 to demand long lived signing keys. Cool :-). I just know that I've been sent GPL requests for kernel keys. David