On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 06:34:38PM -0700, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:

> This bid at odds with the need to keep kernel small. Why not just put
> verifiers as the first module to load? Presumably you need to verify the
> whole core in either case.

They're not useful as an external module, so they need to be built into 
the core image in any case (otherwise an attacker just replaces the 
verifier moduleā€¦). And if you're making the ordering significant, 
it's far too easy for someone to mess up and end up with an insecure 
system as a result.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

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