From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>,
ming.lei@canonical.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, seth.forshee@canonical.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pebolle@tiscali.nl,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
jlee@suse.com, tiwai@suse.de, casey@schaufler-ca.com,
keescook@chromium.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>,
David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 2/2] firmware: add firmware signature checking support
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 18:31:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150519163116.GE23057@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9412.1432029764@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:02:44AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:
>
> > +The kernel firmware signing facility enables to cryptographically sign
> > +firmware files on a system using the same keys used for module signing.
> > +Firmware files's signatures consist of PKCS#7 messages of the respective
> > +firmware file. A firmware file named foo.bin, would have its respective
> > +signature on the filesystem as foo.bin.p7s. When firmware signature
> > +checking is enabled (FIRMWARE_SIG) and when one of the above APIs is used
> > +against foo.bin, the file foo.bin.p7s will also be looked for. If
> > +FIRMWARE_SIG_FORCE is enabled the foo.bin file will only be allowed to
> > +be returned to callers of the above APIs if and only if the foo.bin.p7s
> > +file is confirmed to be a valid signature of the foo.bin file. If
> > +FIRMWARE_SIG_FORCE is not enabled and only FIRMWARE_SIG is enabled the
> > +kernel will be permissive and enabled unsigned firmware files, or firmware
> > +files with incorrect signatures. If FIRMWARE_SIG is not enabled the
> > +signature file is ignored completely.
>
> I'd rework this paragraph somewhat. How about:
>
<-- snip -->
Looks sexy, taken word for word, thanks!
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-19 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-19 0:45 [RFC v3 0/2] firmware: add PKCS#7 firmware signature support Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-19 0:45 ` [RFC v3 1/2] firmware: generalize reading file contents as a helper Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-19 0:45 ` [RFC v3 2/2] firmware: add firmware signature checking support Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-06-08 19:56 ` Kees Cook
2015-07-14 19:20 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-07-21 23:14 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-19 9:33 ` David Howells
2015-05-19 16:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-19 10:02 ` David Howells
2015-05-19 16:31 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2015-05-22 15:21 ` [RFC v3 0/2] firmware: add PKCS#7 firmware signature support David Howells
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