[PATCH v2] Allow to exclude specific file types in LoadPin

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Fri May 31 02:23:34 UTC 2019


On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 06:11:44AM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2019, Ke Wu wrote:
> 
> > Linux kernel already provide MODULE_SIG and KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG to
> > make sure loaded kernel module and kernel image are trusted. This
> > patch adds a kernel command line option "loadpin.exclude" which
> > allows to exclude specific file types from LoadPin. This is useful
> > when people want to use different mechanisms to verify module and
> > kernel image while still use LoadPin to protect the integrity of
> > other files kernel loads.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ke Wu <mikewu at google.com>
> > ---
> > Changelog since v1:
> > - Mark ignore_read_file_id with __ro_after_init.
> > - Mark parse_exclude() with __init.
> > - Use ARRAY_SIZE(ignore_read_file_id) instead of READING_MAX_ID.
> 
> Looks good!
> 
> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris at linux.microsoft.com>

Thanks! Applied to my for-next/loadpin branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git
and should be visible in linux-next in a few days.

-- 
Kees Cook



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