[RFC PATCH v3 1/1] Add dm verity root hash pkcs7 sig validation

Jaskaran Singh Khurana jaskarankhurana at linux.microsoft.com
Mon Jun 10 23:27:21 UTC 2019



On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, Milan Broz wrote:

> On 08/06/2019 00:31, Jaskaran Khurana wrote:
>> The verification is to support cases where the roothash is not secured by
>
>> +	key = request_key(&key_type_user,
>> +			key_desc, NULL);
>> +	if (IS_ERR(key))
>> +		return PTR_ERR(key);
>
> You will need dependence on keyring here (kernel can be configured without it),
> try to compile it without CONFIG_KEYS selected.
>
> I think it is ok that  DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG can directly require CONFIG_KEYS.
> (Add depends on CONFIG_KEYS in KConfig)
>

DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG selects SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION and 
SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION selects KEYS so we should be OK here.

>
> Thanks,
> Milan
>
Thanks,
Jaskaran.



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