linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] certs: export load_certificate

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Message-ID: <Ycu6Dq1Tq2cqq/Lf@iki.fi>
Date:   Wed, 29 Dec 2021 03:29:50 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
To:     Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        dhowells@...hat.com, zohar@...ux.ibm.com,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dimitri.ledkov@...onical.com,
        seth@...shee.me, kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] certs: export load_certificate_list() to be used
 outside certs/

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 08:39:17PM -0500, Nayna Jain wrote:
> load_certificate_list() parses certificates embedded in the kernel
> image to load them onto the keyring.
> 
> Commit "2565ca7f5ec1 (certs: Move load_system_certificate_list to a common
> function)" made load_certificate_list() a common function in the certs/
> directory. Now, export load_certificate_list() outside certs/ to be used
> by other functions.

It is exported to make callable by load_platform_certificate_list(). Making
anything callable by other functions by itself has no inherit value, and
does not serve as a stimulus to make such code change.

/Jarkko