linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] integrity: don't throw an error immediately when failed to add a cert to the .machine keyring

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Message-ID: <39e5612eb2d4dea2759310ccce39c1ad40b5388f.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:54:02 -0500
From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Coiby Xu <coxu@...hat.com>, linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org
Cc: itrymybest80@...tonmail.com, Dmitry Kasatkin
 <dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>, James
 Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        "open
 list:SECURITY SUBSYSTEM" <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] integrity: don't throw an error immediately when failed
 to add a cert to the .machine keyring

Hi Coiby,

According to https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html,the summary line should be no more than  70 - 75 characters. 

On Wed, 2023-12-27 at 12:41 +0800, Coiby Xu wrote:
> Currently when the kernel fails to add a cert to the .machine keyring,
> it will throw an error immediately in the function integrity_add_key.
> 
> Since the kernel will try adding to the .platform keyring next or throw
> an error (in the caller of integrity_add_key i.e. add_to_machine_keyring),
> so there is no need to throw an error immediately in integrity_add_key.
> 
> Reported-by: itrymybest80@...tonmail.com
> Closes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239331
> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@...hat.com>

Otherwise, the patch looks good.

-- 
thanks,

Mim