From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
dyoung@redhat.com, chaowang@redhat.com, bhe@redhat.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
dhowells@redhat.com, pjones@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] Provide PE binary definitions
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 20:16:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140704191633.GA27756@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJL_dMuFj7sZA3PMznNbnS6ezjcJ-WbzGkc2PVJKCNK_C3QnDA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:12:51PM +0300, Anca Emanuel wrote:
> Wow MZ ? EXE for MSDOS and Windows ???
>
> After more research, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable
> [quote]PE is a modified version of the Unix COFF (Common Object File
> Format).[/quote]
>
> How can anyone be sure that Microsoft will not sue about this ?
We already build a kernel that's a valid PE executable for UEFI systems.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-04 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-03 21:07 [RFC PATCH 0/9] kexec: Verify signature of PE signed bzImage Vivek Goyal
2014-07-03 21:07 ` [PATCH 1/9] pkcs7: Forward declare struct key in pkcs7.h Vivek Goyal
2014-07-03 21:07 ` [PATCH 2/9] Provide PE binary definitions Vivek Goyal
2014-07-04 19:12 ` Anca Emanuel
2014-07-04 19:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-07-04 19:16 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2014-07-03 21:07 ` [PATCH 3/9] pefile: Parse a PE binary and verify signature Vivek Goyal
2014-07-03 21:07 ` [PATCH 4/9] pefile: Strip the wrapper off of the cert data block Vivek Goyal
2014-07-03 21:07 ` [PATCH 5/9] pefile: Parse the presumed PKCS#7 content of the certificate blob Vivek Goyal
2014-07-03 21:07 ` [PATCH 6/9] pefile: Parse the "Microsoft individual code signing" data blob Vivek Goyal
2014-07-03 21:07 ` [PATCH 7/9] pefile: Digest the PE binary and compare to the PKCS#7 data Vivek Goyal
2014-07-03 21:07 ` [PATCH 8/9] PEFILE: Validate PKCS#7 trust chain Vivek Goyal
2014-07-03 21:07 ` [PATCH 9/9] kexec: Verify the signature of signed PE bzImage Vivek Goyal
2014-07-04 14:51 ` [RFC PATCH 0/9] kexec: Verify signature of PE signed bzImage Borislav Petkov
2014-07-05 3:01 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-07-08 15:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-08 16:07 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-07-08 16:12 ` Borislav Petkov
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