linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make kernel taint on invalid module signatures configurable

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Date:   Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:08:51 +0000
From:   Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...gle.com>
To:     pmhahn@...ahn.de
Cc:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make kernel taint on invalid module signatures configurable

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:25 AM Philipp Hahn <pmhahn@...ahn.de> wrote:
> Sadly didn't work for me :-(
> If my understanding is correct and iff that would work, Debian (and
> others) could load their public key into Shim and then use the
> associated private key for singing their modules.

This works for UEFI systems, but distributions have to support non-UEFI as
well.