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From: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: Nayna <nayna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Mimi Zohar" <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Dmitry Kasatkin" <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com>,
	"Paul Moore" <paul@paul-moore.com>,
	"James Morris" <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	<linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "joeyli" <jlee@suse.com>,
	"Eric Snowberg" <eric.snowberg@oracle.com>,
	"Nayna Jain" <nayna@linux.ibm.com>,
	"linuxppc-dev" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] integrity: powerpc: Do not select CA_MACHINE_KEYRING
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:03:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CVH3NT4ZIBNS.22HFUP0WCDY26@suppilovahvero> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92e23f29-1a16-54da-48d1-59186158e923@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Tue Sep 12, 2023 at 6:39 AM EEST, Nayna wrote:
>
> On 9/7/23 13:32, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > Adding more CC's from the original patch, looks like get_maintainers is
> > not that great for this file.
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 06:52:19PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> >> No other platform needs CA_MACHINE_KEYRING, either.
> >>
> >> This is policy that should be decided by the administrator, not Kconfig
> >> dependencies.
>
> We certainly agree that flexibility is important. However, in this case, 
> this also implies that we are expecting system admins to be security 
> experts. As per our understanding, CA based infrastructure(PKI) is the 
> standard to be followed and not the policy decision. And we can only 
> speak for Power.

In the end this is dictating policy for no compelling reason, and
that is the bottom line here, not playing a mind game what type of
expertise a sysadmin might or might not have.

BR, Jarkko

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-12 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-07 16:52 [PATCH] integrity: powerpc: Do not select CA_MACHINE_KEYRING Michal Suchanek
2023-09-07 17:32 ` Michal Suchánek
2023-09-12  3:39   ` Nayna
2023-09-12  7:41     ` Michal Suchánek
2023-09-12  9:49       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-09-12 19:22         ` Mimi Zohar
2023-09-12 19:32           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-09-12 19:56             ` Mimi Zohar
2023-09-12 17:03     ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2023-09-11 21:45 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-09-12  7:51   ` Michal Suchánek
2023-09-12  9:46     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-09-12 10:20       ` Michal Suchánek

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