linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] KEYS: trusted: Introduce support for NXP CAAM-based trusted keys

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Date:   Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:35:45 +0200
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:     Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>,
        Aymen Sghaier <aymen.sghaier@....com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Udit Agarwal <udit.agarwal@....com>,
        Jan Luebbe <j.luebbe@...utronix.de>,
        David Gstir <david@...ma-star.at>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] KEYS: trusted: Introduce support for NXP
 CAAM-based trusted keys

Ahmad,

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 6:24 PM Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@...gutronix.de> wrote:
> +#define KEYMOD "kernel:trusted"

why is the CAAM key modifier hard coded?
I'd love to have way to pass my own modifier.

That way existing blobs can also be used with this implementation.
IIRC the NXP vendor tree uses "SECURE_KEY" as default modifier.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard