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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kexec: Cleanup KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG Kconfig help text
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:13:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150313131324.GA21790@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426251877-11415-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de>

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> 
> Make it much simpler without losing the gist of what it says.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig | 13 +++++--------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 8f829ffb9003..8db84b0e5bbd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -1775,14 +1775,11 @@ config KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG
>  	depends on KEXEC_FILE
>  	---help---
>  	  This option makes kernel signature verification mandatory for
> -	  kexec_file_load() syscall. If kernel is signature can not be
> -	  verified, kexec_file_load() will fail.
> -
> -	  This option enforces signature verification at generic level.
> -	  One needs to enable signature verification for type of kernel
> -	  image being loaded to make sure it works. For example, enable
> -	  bzImage signature verification option to be able to load and
> -	  verify signatures of bzImage. Otherwise kernel loading will fail.
> +	  the kexec_file_load() syscall.
> +
> +	  In addition to that option, you need to enable signature
> +	  verification for the corresponding kernel image type being
> +	  loaded in order for this to work.
>  

Hmm..., I find even previous text to be just fine. But as I wrote it, I
might be biased. So I will leave it to others to decide.

Thanks
Vivek

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-13 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-13 13:04 [PATCH] x86/kexec: Cleanup KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG Kconfig help text Borislav Petkov
2015-03-13 13:13 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2015-03-13 14:29   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-03-16 12:07 ` [tip:x86/build] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov

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