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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Mehmet Kayaalp <mkayaalp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	George Wilson <gcwilson@us.ibm.com>,
	LSM <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] KEYS: Insert incompressible bytes to reserve space in bzImage
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:06:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14475.1480064784@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479787880-31811-2-git-send-email-mkayaalp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Mehmet Kayaalp <mkayaalp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Include a random filled binary in vmlinux at the space reserved with
> CONFIG_SYSTEM_EXTRA_CERTIFICATE. This results in an uncompressed reserved
> area inside the bzImage as well, so that it can be replaced with an actual
> certificate later (after the bzImage is distributed).

You haven't said *why* you need an incompressible buffer.  I presume it's
something to do with the decompression wrapper.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-25  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-22  4:11 Mehmet Kayaalp
2016-11-22  4:11 ` [PATCH 1/4] KEYS: Insert incompressible bytes to reserve space in bzImage Mehmet Kayaalp
2016-11-22  4:11 ` [PATCH 2/4] KEYS: Add ELF class-independent certificate insertion support Mehmet Kayaalp
2016-11-22  4:11 ` [PATCH 3/4] KEYS: Support for inserting a certificate into x86 bzImage Mehmet Kayaalp
2016-11-22  4:11 ` [PATCH 4/4] KEYS: Print insert-sys-cert information to stdout instead of stderr Mehmet Kayaalp
2016-11-25  9:06 ` David Howells [this message]
2016-11-25 19:49   ` [PATCH 1/4] KEYS: Insert incompressible bytes to reserve space in bzImage Mehmet Kayaalp

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