linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] KEYS: trusted: Fix trusted key backends when building as module

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Date:   Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:19:19 +0200
From:   Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@...gutronix.de>
To:     Andreas Rammhold <andreas@...mhold.de>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] KEYS: trusted: Fix trusted key backends when building
 as module

Hello Mimi, David, Jarkko and James,

On 02.10.21 23:47, Andreas Rammhold wrote:
>> My mistake.  Trusted and encrypted key types have always been defined
>> as tristate.  Only when EVM selects encrypted keys, and by extension
>> trusted keys, are they builtin.
> 
> So how do we go about this patch? Building the TPM support as module has
> broken actually using the trusted backend. This patch fixes that while
> still allowing it to be a builtin. If there is some configuration there
> a module isn't acceptable I am sure that is handled within Kconfig?
Can anyone of you four pick this up? Andreas' regression fix has
had Jarkko's Reviewed-by for close to two months and a half now.

Thanks,
Ahmad

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