linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] module: signature infrastructure

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Message-ID: <87harbj47t.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:35:26 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	"Kasatkin\, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, jmorris@...ei.org,
	keyrings@...ux-nfs.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] module: signature infrastructure

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

> On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 09:59 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> "Kasatkin, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com> writes:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Please read bellow...
>> >
>> > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
>> >> OK, I took a look at the module.c parts of David and Dmitry's patchsets,
>> >> and didn't really like either, but I stole parts of David's to make
>> >> this.
>> >>
>> >> So, here's the module.c part of module signing.  I hope you two got time
>> >> to discuss the signature format details?  Mimi suggested a scheme where
>> >> the private key would never be saved on disk (even temporarily), but I
>> >> didn't see patches.  Frankly it's something we can do later; let's aim
>> >> at getting the format right for the next merge window.
>> >
>> > In our patches key is stored on the disc in encrypted format...
>> 
>> Oh, I missed that twist.  Thanks for the explanation.
>> 
>> On consideration, I prefer signing to be the final part of the "modules"
>> target rather than modules_install.  I run the latter as root, and that
>> is wrong for doing any code generation.
>
> Agreed, but keep in mind that 'modules_install' could subsequently strip
> the module.

That had better be part of your signing step then!

Cheers,
Rusty.
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