[PATCH] integrity: don't throw an error immediately when failed to add a cert to the .machine keyring

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Tue Jan 2 17:54:02 UTC 2024


Hi Coiby,

According to https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html,the summary line should be no more than  70 - 75 characters. 

On Wed, 2023-12-27 at 12:41 +0800, Coiby Xu wrote:
> Currently when the kernel fails to add a cert to the .machine keyring,
> it will throw an error immediately in the function integrity_add_key.
> 
> Since the kernel will try adding to the .platform keyring next or throw
> an error (in the caller of integrity_add_key i.e. add_to_machine_keyring),
> so there is no need to throw an error immediately in integrity_add_key.
> 
> Reported-by: itrymybest80 at protonmail.com
> Closes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239331
> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu at redhat.com>

Otherwise, the patch looks good.

-- 
thanks,

Mim






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