linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Miscellaneous keyrings and modsign fixes

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Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:41:56 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Philipp Hahn <hahn@...vention.de>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Miscellaneous keyrings and modsign fixes

Philipp Hahn <hahn@...vention.de> wrote:

> Am 25.09.2015 um 17:54 schrieb David Howells:
> > Can you pass these changes on to Linus?  There are four:
> ...
> >  (3) Don't strip leading zeros from the key ID when using it to construct a
> >      key description lest this make the key not match.
> 
> That commit e7c87bef7de2417b219d4dbfe8d33a0098a8df54 went into v4.3-rc4
> and is required to fix dd2f6c4481debfa389c1f2b2b1d5bd6449c42611, which
> was introduced with 3.18-rc1. As thus I recommend back-porting that fix
> and inclusion into
>  4.2
>  4.1
>  4.0
>  3.19
>  3.18
> The patch is simple enough to be cherry-picked into each branch without
> any fuzz.
> 
> We hit that bug and Ubuntu did too:
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1494943>

Sounds good.

David