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Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] LSM: LoadPin for kernel file loading restrictions

From James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] LSM: LoadPin for kernel file loading restrictions
Date 2016-04-12 12:10 +0200
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2016, Kees Cook wrote:

> This provides the mini-LSM "loadpin" that intercepts the now consolidated
> kernel_file_read LSM hook so that a system can keep all loads coming from
> a single trusted filesystem. This is what Chrome OS uses to pin kernel
> module and firmware loading to the read-only crypto-verified dm-verity
> partition so that kernel module signing is not needed.
> 

This all looks good to me, just waiting now for the const fix suggested by 
Joe.


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James Morris
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[PATCH v3 0/6] LSM: LoadPin for kernel file loading restrictions Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-04-07 02:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] LSM: LoadPin for kernel file loading  restrictions James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> - 2016-04-12 12:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] LSM: LoadPin for kernel file loading restrictions Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-04-12 19:00 +0200

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