Re: [PATCH] MODSIGN: only panic in fips mode if sig_enforce is set

[Kyle McMartin]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 04:18:32PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> 3. in the cipher initialization code of the crypto API (i.e. the one
> behind crypto_register_alg()), you check the signature check flag --
> panic the kernel when the flag shows that the signature check failed
> 
> This way you limit the panic on signature checks in FIPS mode to the
> crypto modules.
> 

I was hoping we could just do what we do for driver/staging and set a
flag in modpost for crypto modules, but it looks like since we have
crypto modules outside of crypto/ for things like aesni, that won't
work. Maybe that is a better choice, but it seems like an awful kludge.

--Kyle
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