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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: yannik@sembritzki.me
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kexec forbidding kernels signed with custom platform keys to boot
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:22:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxXzfW+85Xf5OmNCsp2YRQqN3zJT5NhobauK=yn44_xiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d152000f-28ad-d7c1-d656-a4bd46bba450@sembritzki.me>

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:19 AM Yannik Sembritzki <yannik@sembritzki.me> wrote:
>
> > No, I meant that it would have to go into the proper header files, and
> > also be used by verify_pkcs7_signature() and pkcs7_preparse() etc, so
> > that you could actually grep for this, and understand what it does.
> Thanks, Linus, I'll take care of this right away.
>
> This is my first patch and I'm not familiar with the kernel; can you
> give me a quick hint which header file(s) would be the right place for
> this #define?

I think

    include/linux/verification.h

is the right point, it's where verify_pkcs7_signature() is declared
too (and "struct key" is forward-declared), so it would seem to make
most sense there.

             Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-15 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-15 10:00 [PATCH] Fix kexec forbidding kernels signed with custom platform keys to boot Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 17:27   ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 17:37     ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 17:42     ` Vivek Goyal
2018-08-15 18:44       ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 18:58       ` Vivek Goyal
2018-08-15 19:06         ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 19:49           ` Vivek Goyal
2018-08-15 20:47             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 20:53               ` James Bottomley
2018-08-15 21:08               ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 21:13                 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-15 21:31                   ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 21:40                     ` James Bottomley
2018-08-15 21:50                       ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 21:57                     ` Vivek Goyal
2018-08-15 22:14                       ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 21:52                   ` Vivek Goyal
2018-08-15 21:57                     ` James Bottomley
2018-08-15 21:14                 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-16 13:51             ` David Howells
2018-08-16 15:16               ` James Bottomley
2018-08-16 15:42                 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-16 15:49               ` David Howells
2018-08-16 15:56                 ` James Bottomley
2018-08-16 16:56                   ` David Laight
2018-08-16 17:15                     ` James Bottomley
2018-08-16 20:31                 ` David Howells
2018-08-17  0:07                   ` James Bottomley
2018-08-17  8:24                   ` David Howells
2018-08-17 14:58                     ` James Bottomley
2018-08-17 15:42                       ` Justin Forbes
2018-08-17 16:02                         ` James Bottomley
2018-08-16  0:52       ` Dave Young
2018-08-16  0:55         ` Dave Young
2018-08-16 12:13       ` David Howells
2018-08-16 14:22         ` James Bottomley
2018-08-16 14:43         ` David Howells
2018-08-16 14:59           ` James Bottomley
2018-08-17 17:00             ` Alan Cox
2018-08-15 17:45     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 18:19       ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 18:22         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2018-08-15 19:42           ` [PATCH 0/2] Fix kexec forbidding kernels signed with keys in the secondary keyring " Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-16 18:02             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 19:42           ` [PATCH 1/2] " Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 19:42           ` [PATCH 2/2] Replace magic for trusting the secondary keyring with #define Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 21:14             ` kbuild test robot
2018-08-15 21:19               ` [PATCH 2/2] [FIXED] " Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-15 22:01                 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 22:07                   ` [PATCH 2/2] [FIXED v2] " Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-16  1:11                     ` Dave Young
2018-08-16  7:43                       ` Yannik Sembritzki
2018-08-16  8:02                         ` Dave Young
2018-08-16  8:20                           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-16 12:46                       ` Vivek Goyal

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