From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751324AbeECRL4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2018 13:11:56 -0400 Received: from namei.org ([65.99.196.166]:59270 "EHLO namei.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750954AbeECRLy (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2018 13:11:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 03:11:31 +1000 (AEST) From: James Morris To: Mehmet Kayaalp cc: David Howells , David Woodhouse , Keyrings , Linux Integrity , Linux Security , Linux Kernel , Mimi Zohar , Stefan Berger , George Wilson , Mike Rapoport Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Certificate insertion support for x86 bzImages In-Reply-To: <20180502230811.2751-1-mkayaalp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <20180502230811.2751-1-mkayaalp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (LRH 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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