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

Coiby Xu coxu at redhat.com
Fri Jan 5 13:27:02 UTC 2024


On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 12:54:02PM -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
>Hi Coiby,

Hi Mimi,

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

Thanks for pointing me to this limit! How about 
integrity: eliminate harmless error "Problem loading X.509 certificate -126"?

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>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 for reviewing the patch!

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>-- 
>thanks,
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>Mim
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Best regards,
Coiby




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