Re: [PATCH 1/2] module: add syscall to load module from fd

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 17:04 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On 09/06/2012 11:13 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> >> Instead of (or in addition to) kernel module signing, being able to reason
>> >> about the origin of a kernel module would be valuable in situations
>> >> where an OS already trusts a specific file system, file, etc, due to
>> >> things like security labels or an existing root of trust to a partition
>> >> through things like dm-verity.
>> >>
>> >> This introduces a new syscall (currently only on x86), similar to
>> >> init_module, that has only two arguments. The first argument is used as
>> >> a file descriptor to the module and the second argument is a pointer to
>> >> the NULL terminated string of module arguments.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Please use the standard naming convention, which is an f- prefix (i.e. 
>> > finit_module()).
>> 
>> Good point; I just did a replace here.
>
> Have you pushed out the changes?  And if so, to where?

No, I kept them in my patch series but out of linux-next, since I
thought you disliked the placement of the security hooks?

Cheers,
Rusty.