[PATCH v8 04/17] integrity: Do not allow machine keyring updates following init

Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko at kernel.org
Sat Nov 27 00:42:09 UTC 2021


On Tue, 2021-11-23 at 23:41 -0500, Eric Snowberg wrote:
> The machine keyring is setup during init.  No additional keys should be
> allowed to be added afterwards.  Leave the permission as read only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Snowberg <eric.snowberg at oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com>

For completeness (even if stating the obvious) it would be nice to
say explicitly why no additional keys are not allowed after the init.

/Jarkko



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