From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: "Rusty Russell (IBM)" <rusty@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
rusty@ozlabs.au.ibm.com, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Joy Latten <latten@us.ibm.com>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: signed kernel modules?
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:17:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14000.1097749066@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097707239.14303.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
> I'd appreciate your opinion on the issue at hand. Is it worth 600 lines
> of ELF verification and canonicalization code so we can strip modules
> without altering the signature?
You have to some of the ELF verification anyway, otherwise your suggested way
is just as pointless. You had included somde code in your example, but what
that did wasn't sufficient either - it can trivially be broken.
I think we should verify the ELF anyway upon module load; it doesn't take very
long, and the data cache works in our favour. This then means we can drop some
checks later on in the module loading because we can trust the ELF to a known
extent.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-14 10:18 UTC|newest]
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2004-10-11 15:11 ` Fw: signed kernel modules? David Howells
2004-10-11 15:15 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-11 22:34 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-12 8:35 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-12 19:08 ` Greg KH
2004-10-12 19:16 ` David Howells
2004-10-12 20:43 ` David Howells
2004-10-13 0:20 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-13 8:24 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-13 0:11 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-13 9:16 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-13 21:21 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-13 9:24 ` David Howells
2004-10-13 10:42 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-13 22:40 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-14 10:17 ` David Howells [this message]
2004-10-15 0:28 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-14 23:44 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 1:00 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-13 21:18 ` David Howells
2004-10-13 21:51 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 11:12 ` David Howells
2004-10-14 12:01 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 12:11 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-14 14:22 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 14:30 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-14 21:03 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 21:24 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-14 21:36 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 21:52 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-14 22:15 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 22:32 ` David Howells
2004-10-14 22:38 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 12:14 ` David Howells
2004-10-14 13:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-14 14:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-14 14:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-14 15:40 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-14 15:50 ` Dave Jones
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2004-10-14 18:20 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-14 18:30 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-14 18:46 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-14 19:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-14 19:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-14 21:13 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-18 1:56 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-13 23:01 ` Rusty Russell
2004-10-14 11:02 ` David Howells
2004-10-15 0:47 ` Rusty Russell
2004-10-14 18:09 ` David Howells
2004-10-15 11:12 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-15 12:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-15 12:31 ` Josh Boyer
2004-10-15 15:53 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-15 16:17 ` Josh Boyer
2004-10-15 16:59 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-15 17:08 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-15 17:35 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-15 20:56 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-15 21:18 ` Greg KH
2004-10-15 21:34 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-15 22:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-18 12:53 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-18 13:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-10-18 14:09 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-18 16:33 ` Greg KH
2004-10-18 17:14 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-18 17:28 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-15 17:46 ` Josh Boyer
2004-10-15 20:11 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-17 20:18 ` Thomas Weber
2004-10-17 20:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-17 21:25 ` Thomas Weber
2004-10-15 12:48 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-15 15:51 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-15 14:01 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-15 14:28 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-15 15:54 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-15 16:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-14 18:44 ` Thomas Weber
2004-10-15 15:37 Chuck Ebbert
2004-10-15 16:05 ` Olivier Galibert
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2004-10-17 15:13 ` Bodo Eggert
2004-10-18 11:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-23 10:19 ` Bodo Eggert
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