linux-kernel - [PATCH 25/25] MODSIGN: Fix documentation of signed-nokey behavior when not enforcing.

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Message-ID: <20120816013845.872.74533.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:38:45 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com,
	zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, jmorris@...ei.org,
	keyrings@...ux-nfs.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 25/25] MODSIGN: Fix documentation of signed-nokey behavior
 when not enforcing.

jwboyer's previous commit changes the behavior of module signing when
there's a valid signature but we don't know the public key and are in
permissive mode.  This updates the documentation to match.

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
---

 Documentation/module-signing.txt |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


diff --git a/Documentation/module-signing.txt b/Documentation/module-signing.txt
index b355aa2..2549536 100644
--- a/Documentation/module-signing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/module-signing.txt
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ This table indicates the behaviours of the various situations:
 	MODULE STATE				PERMISSIVE MODE	ENFORCING MODE
 	=======================================	===============	===============
 	Unsigned				Ok		EKEYREJECTED
-	Signed, no public key			ENOKEY		ENOKEY
+	Signed, no public key			Ok		ENOKEY
 	Validly signed, public key		Ok		Ok
 	Invalidly signed, public key		EKEYREJECTED	EKEYREJECTED
 	Validly signed, expired key		EKEYEXPIRED	EKEYEXPIRED

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