linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v4 13/16] fs-verity: support builtin file signatures

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:58:49 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@...gle.com>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 13/16] fs-verity: support builtin file signatures

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 11:21:43AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 08:52:02AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> > 
> > To meet some users' needs, add optional support for having fs-verity
> > handle a portion of the authentication policy in the kernel.  An
> > ".fs-verity" keyring is created to which X.509 certificates can be
> > added; then a sysctl 'fs.verity.require_signatures' can be set to cause
> > the kernel to enforce that all fs-verity files contain a signature of
> > their file measurement by a key in this keyring.
> 
> I think it might be a good idea to allow the require_signatures
> setting to be set on a per-file system basis, via a mount option?  We
> could plumb it in via a flag in fsverity_info, set by the file system.

Perhaps, but this is something that can be added later, so I think we should
hold off on it until someone needs it.

> 
> Other than this feature request, looks good; you can add:
> 
> Reviewed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
> 

I assume you mean "Reviewed-by" :-)

- Eric