Re: [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support

[Chris Friesen]

On 11/05/2012 09:31 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> I had a naive idea of just putting in-kernel verification of a complete
> ELF binary passed to kernel by userspace, and if the signature matches,
> jumping to it.
> Would work for elf-x86_64 nicely I guess, but we'd lose a lot of other
> functionality currently being provided by kexec-tools.
>
> Bah. This is a real pandora's box.

Would it be so bad to statically link kexec?

Chris
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/