linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v1 05/12] firmware: add firmware signature checking support

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Date:	Wed, 6 May 2015 10:31:23 -0700
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	"wireless-regdb@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<wireless-regdb@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, jlee@...e.com,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v1 05/12] firmware: add firmware signature checking support

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:57 AM, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure how userspace actually passes the firmware blob to the kernel,
> but I do think that if you can, you should pass the signature separately to
> the blob.

Thanks yeah that is what I was hoping we'd prefer to end up doing.
Will look at your tree and see if I can base my work on that now.

 Luis
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