From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IMA: How to manage user space signing policy with others
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:45:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362102307.9158.32.camel@falcor1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130228200847.GD11360@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 15:08 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> - New hook is required so that we can call it after locking down the
> executable in memory. Even if we have a separate method/hook for
> bzImage verification, it does not take away the need for verifying
> /sbin/kexec excutable signature. Because apart from bzImage, that
> process loads lot more information like purgatory, bootparams and
> there is no way to verify signatures of those. So by verifying
> /sbin/kexec it is assumed that purgaotry and bootparams can be
> trusted because it is coming from a signed process.
Ok, this is what I was missing.
thanks,
Mimi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-01 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-28 15:13 IMA: How to manage user space signing policy with others Vivek Goyal
2013-02-28 18:51 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-02-28 20:30 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-02-28 20:57 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-01 1:42 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-02-28 19:23 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-02-28 20:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-01 1:45 ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2013-02-28 21:35 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-02-28 22:20 ` Eric Paris
2013-03-01 1:49 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-03-01 12:15 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-03-01 15:28 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-01 18:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-01 19:39 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-03-01 21:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-03 21:42 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-03-04 15:29 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-04 17:46 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-04 18:59 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-03-04 19:15 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-05 1:21 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-03-05 15:18 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-05 20:40 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-03-05 21:53 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-06 15:42 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-03-06 23:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-07 1:39 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-03-07 14:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-07 15:40 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-03-07 15:53 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-07 17:53 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-03-07 21:56 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-08 8:09 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-03-08 15:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-06 15:54 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-06 22:48 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-03-06 23:38 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-07 13:38 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-03-07 14:57 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-04 19:19 ` Eric Paris
2013-03-04 21:47 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-01 2:17 ` Mimi Zohar
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