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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:34:14 +0000 From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, petkan@...-labs.com, jmorris@...ei.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org, Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] X.509: Partially revert patch to add validation against IMA MOK keyring David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote: > Partially revert commit 41c89b64d7184a780f12f2cccdabe65cb2408893: > > Author: Petko Manolov <petkan@...-labs.com> > Date: Wed Dec 2 17:47:55 2015 +0200 > IMA: create machine owner and blacklist keyrings > > The problem is that prep->trusted is a simple boolean and the additional > x509_validate_trust() call doesn't therefore distinguish levels of > trustedness, but is just OR'd with the result of validation against the > system trusted keyring. > > However, setting the trusted flag means that this key may be added to *any* > trusted-only keyring - including the system trusted keyring. > > Whilst I appreciate what the patch is trying to do, I don't think this is > quite the right solution. Please apply this to security/next. Thanks, David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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