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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>, Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] LSM: LoadPin for kernel file loading restrictions
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:24:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1459369441.2657.3.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160328143833.911097dc39990ebe7a40b23d@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 14:38 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:14:22 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> > This LSM enforces that kernel-loaded files (modules, firmware, etc)
> > must all come from the same filesystem, with the expectation that
> > such a filesystem is backed by a read-only device such as dm-verity
> > or CDROM. This allows systems that have a verified and/or unchangeable
> > filesystem to enforce module and firmware loading restrictions without
> > needing to sign the files individually.
> 
> Patchset generally looks good to me.  It's regrettable that a load of
> stuff was added to lib/ for one obscure LSM but hopefully (doubtfully)
> someone else will find a use for some of it.

I'm planning on adding support for measuring buffers, like the boot
command line, which will need to be string safe.

Mimi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-30 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-28 21:14 [PATCH v2 0/5] LSM: LoadPin for kernel file loading restrictions Kees Cook
2016-03-28 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] string_helpers: add kstrdup_quotable Kees Cook
2016-03-28 23:30   ` Joe Perches
2016-04-06 23:50     ` Kees Cook
2016-03-28 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] string_helpers: add kstrdup_quotable_cmdline Kees Cook
2016-03-30 11:07   ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-03-30 11:11     ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-04-06 23:38       ` Kees Cook
2016-03-28 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] string_helpers: add kstrdup_quotable_file Kees Cook
2016-03-28 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] Yama: consolidate error reporting Kees Cook
2016-03-28 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] LSM: LoadPin for kernel file loading restrictions Kees Cook
2016-03-28 21:38   ` Andrew Morton
2016-03-28 21:58     ` Kees Cook
2016-03-30 20:24     ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2016-03-28 23:20   ` Joe Perches
2016-03-31 21:24   ` Mimi Zohar
2016-04-04 19:31     ` Kees Cook
2016-04-04 23:03       ` Mimi Zohar

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