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From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Mehmet Kayaalp <mkayaalp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Keyrings <keyrings@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Integrity <linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Security <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	George Wilson <gcwilson@us.ibm.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Certificate insertion support for x86 bzImages
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 03:11:31 +1000 (AEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1805040311050.12843@namei.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180502230811.2751-1-mkayaalp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2 May 2018, Mehmet Kayaalp wrote:

> These patches add support for modifying the reserved space for extra
> certificates in a compressed bzImage in x86. This allows separating the
> system keyring certificate from the kernel build process. After the kernel
> image is distributed, the insert-sys-cert script can be used to insert the
> certificate for x86.

Can you provide more explanation of how this is useful and who would use 
it?

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-03 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-02 23:08 Mehmet Kayaalp
2018-05-02 23:08 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] KEYS: Insert incompressible bytes to reserve space in bzImage Mehmet Kayaalp
2018-05-02 23:08 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] KEYS: Add ELF class-independent certificate insertion support Mehmet Kayaalp
2018-05-02 23:08 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] KEYS: Support for inserting a certificate into x86 bzImage Mehmet Kayaalp
2018-05-02 23:08 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] KEYS: Print insert-sys-cert information to stdout instead of stderr Mehmet Kayaalp
2018-05-03 17:11 ` James Morris [this message]
2018-05-03 21:42   ` [PATCH v6 0/4] Certificate insertion support for x86 bzImages Mimi Zohar
2018-05-04  1:20     ` Mehmet Kayaalp

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