Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] KEYS: trusted: Introduce support for NXP CAAM-based trusted keys

Richard Weinberger
2021-03-31T18:36:54Z

James,

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "James Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 3:08 PM Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de
>> > wrote:
>> > keyctl add trusted $KEYNAME "load $(cat ~/kmk.blob)" @s
>>
>> Is there a reason why we can't pass the desired backend name in the
>> trusted key parameters?
>> e.g.
>> keyctl add trusted $KEYNAME "backendtype caam load $(cat ~/kmk.blob)"
>> @s
>
> Why would you want to in the load? The blob should be type specific,
> so a TPM key shouldn't load as a CAAM key and vice versa ... and if
> they're not they need to be made so before the patches go upstream.

I fear right now there is no good way to detect whether a blob is desired
for CAAM or TPM.

> I could possibly see that you might want to be type specific in the
> create, but once you're simply loading an already created key, the
> trusted key subsystem should be able to figure what to do on its own.

So you have some kind of container format in mind which denotes the
type of the blob?

Thanks,
//richard