On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > this is a patch series to add the support for firmware signature > check. At this time, the kernel checks extra signature file (*.sig) > for each firmware, instead of embedded signature. > It's just a quick hack using the existing module signing mechanism, > thus provided only as a proof of concept for now. > > To be noted, it doesn't support the firmwares via udev but only the > direct loading, and the check for built-in firmware is missing, too. Just to make sure I'm reading this correctly, it will sign any of the firwmare files installed directly from the kernel tree if the option is set. So for the firmware in the linux-firmware tree we'd need to either copy that into the kernel tree during build time, or duplicate the signing bits in the linux-firmware tree itself. However if we do the latter, we'd probably need to use the same keys as the per-build kernel key which means copying keys (ew) or tell the kernel to include a separate firmware key in the extra list. I feel like I'm rambling a bit, but I'm trying to work out how signed firmware would look from a distro perspective. A significant amount of work has been done to decouple linux-firmware from the kernel tree and if signed firmware is used it seems to couple them together one way or another. At the moment, using generated per-build keys to come up with the firmware signatures seems a bit suboptimal in that regard. josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
