Hi James,

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 06:45:35PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> [+rusty]
> 
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:28 PM, James Morris <jmor...@namei.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, James Morris wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Kees Cook wrote:
> >>
> >> > This LSM enforces that modules must all come from the same filesystem,
> >> > with the expectation that such a filesystem is backed by a read-only
> >> > device such as dm-verity or CDROM. This allows systems that have a
> >> > verified or unchanging filesystem to enforce module loading restrictions
> >> > without needing to sign the modules individually.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
> >>
> >> Are you using this for ChromeOS?
> 
> Yes. Chrome OS uses a read-only root filesystem that is backed by
> dm-verity. This lets us pin all module loading to that filesystem
> without needing per-module signatures.
> 
> > Also, you should CC Rusty on this.
> 
> Done! :)

Any update on this? It'd be nice to have it in linux-next.

Thanks,

-Kees

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Kees Cook                                            @outflux.net
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