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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2015-03-13 09:04:37 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-03-13 09:21:58 -0400
commitd8eb8940417559808fdd0180a4d50f8f0281b822 (patch)
treed3b221637244e6f274fc9570b487b24c64438e72
parent56544d29c3a0e383c0d819fefc9570b2803db193 (diff)
x86/kexec: Cleanup KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG Kconfig help text
Fix typos and also make it simpler without losing the gist of what it says. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426251877-11415-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig13
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 78a3f674c3eb..867bc5bea8dc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1742,14 +1742,11 @@ config KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG
1742 depends on KEXEC_FILE 1742 depends on KEXEC_FILE
1743 ---help--- 1743 ---help---
1744 This option makes kernel signature verification mandatory for 1744 This option makes kernel signature verification mandatory for
1745 kexec_file_load() syscall. If kernel is signature can not be 1745 the kexec_file_load() syscall.
1746 verified, kexec_file_load() will fail. 1746
1747 1747 In addition to that option, you need to enable signature
1748 This option enforces signature verification at generic level. 1748 verification for the corresponding kernel image type being
1749 One needs to enable signature verification for type of kernel 1749 loaded in order for this to work.
1750 image being loaded to make sure it works. For example, enable
1751 bzImage signature verification option to be able to load and
1752 verify signatures of bzImage. Otherwise kernel loading will fail.
1753 1750
1754config KEXEC_BZIMAGE_VERIFY_SIG 1751config KEXEC_BZIMAGE_VERIFY_SIG
1755 bool "Enable bzImage signature verification support" 1752 bool "Enable bzImage signature verification support"