Re: [PATCH v4 13/16] fs-verity: support builtin file signatures

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 11:21:43AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 08:52:02AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > To meet some users' needs, add optional support for having fs-verity
> > handle a portion of the authentication policy in the kernel.  An
> > ".fs-verity" keyring is created to which X.509 certificates can be
> > added; then a sysctl 'fs.verity.require_signatures' can be set to cause
> > the kernel to enforce that all fs-verity files contain a signature of
> > their file measurement by a key in this keyring.
> 
> I think it might be a good idea to allow the require_signatures
> setting to be set on a per-file system basis, via a mount option?  We
> could plumb it in via a flag in fsverity_info, set by the file system.

Perhaps, but this is something that can be added later, so I think we should
hold off on it until someone needs it.

> 
> Other than this feature request, looks good; you can add:
> 
> Reviewed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> 

I assume you mean "Reviewed-by" :-)

- Eric



[Index of Archives]     [Reiser Filesystem Development]     [Ceph FS]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux FS]     [Yosemite National Park]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]     [Linux Media]

  Powered by Linux