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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	live-patching@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, kpatch@redhat.com,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 0/3] Kernel Live Patching
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:40:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141217124058.GC2433@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKTCnz=tA9LyGpOvM9LyBp+oBDTsW6t+=2C80On+-ysfRBpDqg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 01:22:21PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, Balbir Singh wrote:
> >
> >> >> Could you describe what this does to signing? I presume the patched
> >> >> module should cause a taint on module signing?
> >> >
> >> > Hmm, why should it?
> >>
> >> I wanted to clarify it from a different perspective
> >>
> >> If the base image is signed by X and the patched module is signed by
> >> Y, is that supported. What does it imply in the case of live-patching?
> >
> > Why should that matter? Both are signed by keys that kernel is configured
> > to trust, which makes them equal (even though they are technically
> > different).
> >
> 
> I am not sure they are equal, others can comment

Since any loaded kernel module can do virtually anything on a machine,
there can only be one level of trust. As such, all trusted keys are
equally trusted.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
Director SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-17 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-16 17:58 [PATCHv7 0/3] Kernel Live Patching Seth Jennings
2014-12-16 17:58 ` [PATCHv7 1/3] kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH Seth Jennings
2014-12-17 14:06   ` Miroslav Benes
2014-12-17 15:15   ` Petr Mladek
2014-12-18 11:44   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-18 15:52     ` Jiri Kosina
2014-12-19  3:36       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-16 17:58 ` [PATCHv7 2/3] kernel: add support for live patching Seth Jennings
2014-12-16 18:46   ` Balbir Singh
2014-12-16 19:41     ` Seth Jennings
2014-12-17 14:09   ` Miroslav Benes
2014-12-18 13:36   ` Petr Mladek
2014-12-19  5:37   ` [kpatch] [PATCH] livepatch v7: move x86 specific ftrace handler code to arch/x86 Li Bin
2014-12-19  6:12     ` Li Bin
2014-12-19  6:11   ` Li Bin
2014-12-19  7:31     ` Jiri Kosina
2014-12-19 14:23     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-12-19  7:39   ` [PATCHv7 2/3] kernel: add support for live patching Jiri Kosina
2014-12-16 17:58 ` [PATCHv7 3/3] samples: add sample live patching module Seth Jennings
2014-12-17 14:06   ` Miroslav Benes
2014-12-17 15:23   ` Petr Mladek
2014-12-16 18:15 ` [PATCHv7 0/3] Kernel Live Patching Balbir Singh
2014-12-16 19:05   ` Seth Jennings
2014-12-17  3:42     ` Balbir Singh
2014-12-16 20:14   ` Jiri Kosina
2014-12-17  3:43     ` Balbir Singh
2014-12-17  6:46       ` Jiri Kosina
2014-12-17  7:52         ` Balbir Singh
2014-12-17 12:40           ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2014-12-17 16:21 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-12-18 15:56   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-12-18 11:55 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-18 15:49   ` [PATCH] livepatch: use FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY Josh Poimboeuf
2014-12-19  3:34     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-12-19  9:43     ` Petr Mladek
2014-12-22 17:34       ` Petr Mladek
2014-12-22 17:41         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-12-22 19:44 ` [PATCHv7 0/3] Kernel Live Patching Jiri Kosina

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