Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 20:31:30 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: extra sanity check in modules Message-ID: <20020508203130.A50402@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20020508111607.C94469@blossom.cjclark.org>; from cjc@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:16:07AM -0700 References: <20020508171635.A50078@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020508111607.C94469@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:16:07AM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> What does it gain you? If someone can modify the foo.ko, they can
> modify the foo.ko.md5. What does making foo.ko.md5 immutable do that
> that just making foo.ko immutable wouldn't?
Hmmm, okay, so what if the md5 data is stored in a read only place? I wasn't
only thinking about security here, I was also thinking about a way to
avoid loading a module in case somehow it became corrupted. I'll go
ahead and do it anyway and post the patch somewhere, don't really care
if people end up using it or not.
Cheers,
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Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
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