From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, herbert.xu@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] MODSIGN: Kernel module signing
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:35:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702142135.40832.agruen@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070215041345.GA15654@redhat.com>
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 20:13, Dave Jones wrote:
> I've not investigated it, but I hear rumours that suse has something
> similar.
Actually, no. We don't belive that module signing adds significant value, and
it also doesn't work well with external modules. (The external modules we
really care about are GPL ones; it gives us a way to update drivers without
pushing out entirely new kernels.)
Cheers,
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-15 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-14 19:09 [PATCH 0/6] MODSIGN: Kernel module signing David Howells
2007-02-14 19:09 ` [PATCH 2/6] MODSIGN: In-kernel crypto extensions David Howells
2007-02-14 19:09 ` [PATCH 3/6] MODSIGN: Add indications of module ELF types David Howells
2007-02-14 19:09 ` [PATCH 4/6] MODSIGN: Module ELF verifier David Howells
2007-02-14 19:10 ` [PATCH 5/6] MODSIGN: Module signature checker and key manager David Howells
2007-02-14 19:10 ` [PATCH 6/6] MODSIGN: Apply signature checking to modules on module load David Howells
2007-02-14 19:26 ` [PATCH 0/6] MODSIGN: Kernel module signing Linus Torvalds
2007-02-14 19:40 ` David Howells
2007-02-14 21:32 ` Michael Halcrow
2007-02-14 21:59 ` David Howells
2007-02-14 22:21 ` Michael Halcrow
2007-02-15 21:31 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-02-15 3:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 4:13 ` Dave Jones
2007-02-15 5:35 ` Andreas Gruenbacher [this message]
2007-02-15 5:45 ` Dave Jones
2007-02-15 6:14 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-15 6:22 ` Dave Jones
2007-02-15 20:34 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-02-15 22:12 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-16 0:15 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-02-15 22:10 ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-15 20:55 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-02-15 21:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-02-15 22:12 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-02-15 14:35 ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-15 17:32 ` David Howells
2007-02-15 18:33 ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-15 20:01 ` David Lang
2007-02-15 21:01 ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-15 21:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-02-15 22:13 ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-16 20:21 ` Dave Jones
2007-02-16 20:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
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2007-02-16 15:38 ` Bodo Eggert
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