linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] LSM: LoadPin for kernel file loading restrictions

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Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2016 10:20:43 +1000 (AEST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
cc:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] LSM: LoadPin for kernel file loading
 restrictions

On Wed, 20 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.
> 

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git next


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James Morris
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