linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] KEYS: trusted: fix use as module when CONFIG_TCG

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Message-ID: <20210728215200.nfvnm5s2b27ang7i@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:52:00 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
To:     Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        Andreas Rammhold <andreas@...mhold.de>,
        David Gstir <david@...ma-star.at>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KEYS: trusted: fix use as module when CONFIG_TCG_TPM=m

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 06:24:49AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> On 27.07.21 05:04, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> >> Reported-by: Andreas Rammhold <andreas@...mhold.de>
> >> Fixes: 5d0682be3189 ("KEYS: trusted: Add generic trusted keys framework")
> >> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@...gutronix.de>
> > 
> > Is it absolutely need to do all this *just* to fix the bug?
> > 
> > For a pure bug fix the most essential thing is to be able the backport
> > it to stable kernels.
> 
> Not much happened in-between, so a backport should be trivial.
> I can provide these if needed.

"not much" is not good enough. It should be "not anything".

/Jarkko