"H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> writes: > On 09/06/2012 11:13 AM, Kees Cook wrote: >> Instead of (or in addition to) kernel module signing, being able to reason >> about the origin of a kernel module would be valuable in situations >> where an OS already trusts a specific file system, file, etc, due to >> things like security labels or an existing root of trust to a partition >> through things like dm-verity. >> >> This introduces a new syscall (currently only on x86), similar to >> init_module, that has only two arguments. The first argument is used as >> a file descriptor to the module and the second argument is a pointer to >> the NULL terminated string of module arguments. >> > > Please use the standard naming convention, which is an f- prefix (i.e. > finit_module()).
Good point; I just did a replace here. Thanks, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
