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| author | Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> | 2014-07-02 15:37:30 -0400 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2014-07-03 21:38:32 +0800 |
| commit | 002c77a48b479b094b834b02ef78be47ceac76fd (patch) | |
| tree | 8b77329be83d25fc89cdf46d0c296e5820a23d06 /crypto/Kconfig | |
| parent | 8f312d64b5eea5c1f807265c1010969a0cb4b876 (diff) | |
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crypto: fips - only panic on bad/missing crypto mod signatures
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: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@atsec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig index 025c5108442e..1dca374bbd82 100644 --- a/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/crypto/Kconfig @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ comment "Crypto core or helper" config CRYPTO_FIPS bool "FIPS 200 compliance" depends on (CRYPTO_ANSI_CPRNG || CRYTPO_DRBG) && !CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS + depends on MODULE_SIG help This options enables the fips boot option which is required if you want to system to operate in a FIPS 200 |