linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key

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Message-ID: <20210702064938.k2xr2cdtj2oybenc@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 2 Jul 2021 09:49:38 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        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>,
        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 Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 12:17:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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

I'll (re-)test the changes, and make a PR after rc1 out.

/Jarkko