From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
keyrings@vger.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-integrity <linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org>,
LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 09:49:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210702064938.k2xr2cdtj2oybenc@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgVZ6PUJ6Q=vqnhSkHnE2Rvr72xPFjoRU4=HHn-Rqxu4w@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 12:17:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 2:34 PM Stefan Berger
> <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Address a kbuild issue where a developer created an ECDSA key for signing
> > kernel modules and then builds an older version of the kernel, when bi-
> > secting the kernel for example, that does not support ECDSA keys.
>
> Thanks, these two don't confuse me any more.
>
> Linus
I'll (re-)test the changes, and make a PR after rc1 out.
/Jarkko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-02 6:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-29 21:34 [PATCH v8 0/2] Add support for ECDSA-signed kernel modules Stefan Berger
2021-06-29 21:34 ` [PATCH v8 1/2] certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key Stefan Berger
2021-06-30 19:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-02 6:49 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2021-06-29 21:34 ` [PATCH v8 2/2] certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules Stefan Berger
2021-07-02 6:50 ` [PATCH v8 0/2] Add support for ECDSA-signed kernel modules Jarkko Sakkinen
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