On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 14:09 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:44 PM, David Howells <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Whilst that may be true, we either have to check signatures on every bit of > > firmware that the appropriate driver doesn't say is meant to be signed or > > not > > bother. > > I vote for "not bother". > > Seriously, if you have firmware in /lib/firmware, and you don't trust > it, what the hell are you doing?
I might "trust" the files in /lib/firmware, but I also want to make sure that they haven't changed. File signatures provide file provenance and integrity guarantees. Mimi
