Re: [PATCH v11 0/4] integrity: support including firmware ".platform" keys at build time

[Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 04:03:12PM -0500, Nayna wrote:
> 
> On 3/11/22 11:42, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2022-03-11 at 10:11 +0530, Nageswara Sastry wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 11/03/22 3:14 am, Nayna Jain wrote:
> > > > Some firmware support secure boot by embedding static keys to verify the
> > > > Linux kernel during boot. However, these firmware do not expose an
> > > > interface for the kernel to load firmware keys onto the ".platform"
> > > > keyring, preventing the kernel from verifying the kexec kernel image
> > > > signature.
> > > > 
> > > > This patchset exports load_certificate_list() and defines a new function
> > > > load_builtin_platform_cert() to load compiled in certificates onto the
> > > > ".platform" keyring.
> > > > 
> > > > Changelog:
> > > > v11:
> > > > * Added a new patch to conditionally build extract-cert if
> > > > PLATFORM_KEYRING is enabled.
> > > > 
> > > Tested the following four patches with and with out setting
> > > CONFIG_INTEGRITY_PLATFORM_KEYS
> > > 
> > > Tested-by: Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry@linux.ibm.com>
> > OK, I added it:
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd.git
> 
> Thanks Jarkko. Masahiro Yamada would prefer to revert the original commit
> 340a02535ee785c64c62a9c45706597a0139e972 i.e. move extract-cert back to the
> scripts/ directory.
> 
> I am just posting v12 which includes Masahiro feedback. Nageswara has
> already tested v12 version as well.
> 
> I am fine either way 1.) Adding v11 and then separately handling of
> reverting of the commit or 2.) Adding v12 version which includes the revert.
> I leave the decision on you as to which one to upstream.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> 
>     - Nayna
> 

I already sent PR for v5.18. Too many late changes to include this, which
means that v12 is the way to go.

BR, Jarkko