linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix kexec forbidding kernels signed with custom platform keys to boot

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Date:   Wed, 15 Aug 2018 20:19:54 +0200
From:   Yannik Sembritzki <yannik@...britzki.me>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kexec forbidding kernels signed with custom platform
 keys to boot

> No, I meant that it would have to go into the proper header files, and
> also be used by verify_pkcs7_signature() and pkcs7_preparse() etc, so
> that you could actually grep for this, and understand what it does.
Thanks, Linus, I'll take care of this right away.

This is my first patch and I'm not familiar with the kernel; can you
give me a quick hint which header file(s) would be the right place for
this #define?

Yannik