Re: ima measurement carrying on -mm

[Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Am Donnerstag, 29 September 2016, 14:02:06 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:44:10 -0300 Thiago Jung Bauermann 
<bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Hello Andrew,
> > 
> > You have in the -mm tree a version of the "kexec handover buffer" and
> > "ima carry measurement list" patches that were NAKed by Eric Biederman.
> > I would just like to double-check that there's no risk of that version
> > reaching v4.9.
> > 
> > Mimi posted v5 of a merged patch set that addresses Eric's concern:
> > 
> > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2016-September/149183.ht
> > ml
> > 
> > There are no separate kexec handover patches anymore. They were folded
> > into the series above. The kexec code is simplified now, it doesn't
> > support updating the buffer and recalculating the hash on reboot, and
> > is now IMA- specific instead of a generic kexec feature.
> 
> Yup, thanks.
> 
> I wasn't thinking any of this material is suitable for 4.9.  Seems that
> a bit more consideration will be needed.  Am I wrong about that?

Yes regarding the "ima carry measurement list" patches, but I was hoping 
that at least the kexec_file_load patches would be upstreamed.

> Are all of these -mm patches up to date?
> 
> kexec_file-allow-arch-specific-memory-walking-for-kexec_add_buffer.patch
> kexec_file-change-kexec_add_buffer-to-take-kexec_buf-as-argument.patch
> kexec_file-factor-out-kexec_locate_mem_hole-from-kexec_add_buffer.patch
> powerpc-change-places-using-config_kexec-to-use-config_kexec_core-instead.
> patch
> powerpc-factor-out-relocation-code-from-module_64c-to-elf_util_64c.patch
> powerpc-generalize-elf64_apply_relocate_add.patch
> powerpc-adapt-elf64_apply_relocate_add-for-kexec_file_load.patch
> powerpc-add-functions-to-read-elf-files-of-any-endianness.patch
> powerpc-implement-kexec_file_load.patch
> powerpc-add-code-to-work-with-device-trees-in-kexec_file_load.patch
> powerpc-add-support-for-loading-elf-kernels-with-kexec_file_load.patch
> powerpc-add-support-for-loading-elf-kernels-with-kexec_file_load-fix.patch
> powerpc-add-purgatory-for-kexec_file_load-implementation.patch
> powerpc-add-purgatory-for-kexec_file_load-implementation-fix.patch
> powerpc-enable-config_kexec_file-in-powerpc-server-defconfigs.patch

Yes, the above are the latest version (v8).

> kexec_file-include-the-purgatory-segment-in-the-kexec-image-checksum.patch
> kexec_file-add-buffer-hand-over-support-for-the-next-kernel.patch
> powerpc-kexec_file-add-buffer-hand-over-support-for-the-next-kernel.patch
> kexec_file-add-mechanism-to-update-kexec-segments.patch

The above were superseded by the version Mimi posted this week I referred 
to.

Thanks for the quick response.

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Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center