linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] KEYS: trusted: Use ASN.1 encoded OID

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Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 18:37:51 +0300
From: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@...nel.org>
To: "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
 <linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: <keyrings@...r.kernel.org>, "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] KEYS: trusted: Use ASN.1 encoded OID

On Thu May 23, 2024 at 6:30 PM EEST, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-05-23 at 16:54 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Thu May 23, 2024 at 4:38 PM EEST, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2024-05-23 at 16:19 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > > There's no reason to encode OID_TPMSealedData at run-time, as it
> > > > never changes.
> > > > 
> > > > Replace it with the encoded version, which has exactly the same
> > > > size:
> > > > 
> > > >         67 81 05 0A 01 05
> > > > 
> > > > Include OBJECT IDENTIFIER (0x06) tag and length as the epilogue
> > > > so
> > > > that the OID can be simply copied to the blob.
> > > 
> > > This is true, but if we're going to do this, we should expand the
> > > OID
> > > registry functions (in lib/oid_registry.c) to do something like
> > > encode_OID.  The registry already contains the hex above minus the
> > > two
> > > prefixes (which are easy to add).
> > 
> > Yes, I do agree with this idea, and I named variable the I named
> > it to make it obvious that generation is possible.
> > 
> > It would be best to have a single source, which could be just
> > a CSV file with entries like:
> > 
> > <Name>,<OID number>
> > 
> > And then in scripts/ there should be a script that takes this
> > source and generates oid_registry.gen.{h,c}. The existing
> > oid_registry.h should really just include oid_registry.gen.h
> > then to make this transparent change.
> > 
> > And then in the series where OID's are encoded per-subsystem
> > patch that takes pre-encoded OID into use.
> > 
> > Happy to review such patch set if it is pushed forward.
>
> Heh, OK, since I'm the one who thinks it's quite easy, I'll give it a
> go.

I guess if it cleaned up multiple sites in kernel then it could
be considered useful. I'd guess that there is at least a few
locations that also encode OID.

BR, Jarkko