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

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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2024 18:02:38 +0200
From: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@...nel.org>
To: "Coiby Xu" <coxu@...hat.com>
Cc: <linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org>, <itrymybest80@...tonmail.com>, "Mimi
 Zohar" <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>, "Dmitry Kasatkin"
 <dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com>, "Paul Moore" <paul@...l-moore.com>, "James
 Morris" <jmorris@...ei.org>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, "open
 list:SECURITY SUBSYSTEM" <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>, "open
 list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] integrity: don't throw an error immediately when failed
 to add a cert to the .machine keyring

On Fri Jan 5, 2024 at 3:20 PM EET, Coiby Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 04:09:29PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> >On Wed Dec 27, 2023 at 6:41 AM EET, 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@...tonmail.com
> >
> >Missing "Firstname Lastname".
>
> Thanks for raising this concern! I've asked the reporter if he/she can
> share his/her name.

Also, it is lacking fixes tag.

Fixes tag is mandatory, name part would be super nice to have :-) Since
this categories as a bug fix, getting them in is 1st priority and that
thus does not absolutely block applying the change. Thanks for going
trouble trying to query it, however.

BR, Jarkko