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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgVZ6PUJ6Q=vqnhSkHnE2Rvr72xPFjoRU4=HHn-Rqxu4w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:17:38 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-integrity <linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key
 if it's not an RSA key

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 2:34 PM Stefan Berger
<stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Address a kbuild issue where a developer created an ECDSA key for signing
> kernel modules and then builds an older version of the kernel, when bi-
> secting the kernel for example, that does not support ECDSA keys.

Thanks, these two don't confuse me any more.

                Linus

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