From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
stable-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "KEYS: prevent keys from being removed from specified keyrings" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:23:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453317802.2858.25.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160120183633.GA527@kroah.com>
On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 10:36 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 01:15:47PM -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > The concept of not being able to remove a key from a keyring was
> > introduced to prevent keys from being removed from the blacklist
> > keyring. The blacklist keyring was just upstreamed in the current open
> > window. I don't see a need to backport either this patch or the "KEYS:
> > refcount bug fix" patch.
>
> Ah, ok, remove this for all stable kernel trees, right? For some reason
> I thought this was resolving a different key security "issue" that was
> recently reported...
Yes, thanks!
Mimi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-20 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-20 16:58 Patch "KEYS: prevent keys from being removed from specified keyrings" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree gregkh
2016-01-20 18:15 ` Mimi Zohar
2016-01-20 18:36 ` Greg KH
2016-01-20 19:23 ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
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