On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 03:37:30PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Per further discussion with NIST, the requirements for FIPS state that
> we only need to panic the system on failed kernel module signature checks
> for crypto subsystem modules. This moves the fips-mode-only module
> signature check out of the generic module loading code, into the crypto
> subsystem, at points where we can catch both algorithm module loads and
> mode module loads. At the same time, make CONFIG_CRYPTO_FIPS dependent on
> CONFIG_MODULE_SIG, as this is entirely necessary for FIPS mode.
> 
> v2: remove extraneous blank line, perform checks in static inline
> function, drop no longer necessary fips.h include.
> 
> CC: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>
> CC: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net>
> CC: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au>
> CC: Stephan Mueller <stephan.muel...@atsec.com>
> CC: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <ja...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com>

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