linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] fsverity: mark builtin signatures as deprecated

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Message-ID: <Y5zc74DPqamqs+rH@sol.localdomain>
Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:02:39 -0800
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Fan Wu <wufan@...ux.microsoft.com>
Cc:     Luca Boccassi <bluca@...ian.org>, linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        Jes Sorensen <jsorensen@...a.com>,
        Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsverity: mark builtin signatures as deprecated

On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 02:17:19PM -0800, Fan Wu wrote:
> We have also noticed many use cases for the fs-verity build-in signatures. Proposals
> exist to use them[1]. Package managers were updated to use them[2]. We are
> successfully using them in production. Therefore we prefer to keep the existing
> build-in signatures.
> 
> [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FsVerityRPM#Enable_fs-verity_in_RPM
> [2]https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/1121

Aren't those the same project?  I already mentioned in the commit message that
it was rejected from Fedora and seems to have been abandoned.  So it seems to be
something that didn't actually work out.  Let me know if you know of anything to
the contrary...

- Eric