On Sun, 2019-05-12 at 11:17 +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 01:24:17PM +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote: > > This proposal consists in marshaling pathnames and xattrs in a file called > > .xattr-list. They are unmarshaled by the CPIO parser after all files have > > been extracted. > > Couldn't this parsing of the .xattr-list file and the setting of the xattrs > be done equivalently by the initramfs' /init? Why is kernel involvement > actually required here? It's too late. The /init itself should be signed and verified. Mimi