netdev - Re: [REGRESSION] Re: [PATCH] crypto: pkcs7: remove sha1 support

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Message-ID: <20240313194423.GA1111@sol.localdomain>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:44:23 -0700
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To: James Prestwood <prestwoj@...il.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Karel Balej <balejk@...fyz.cz>, dimitri.ledkov@...onical.com,
	alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	dhowells@...hat.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-modules@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com, mcgrof@...nel.org,
	mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, iwd@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Re: [PATCH] crypto: pkcs7: remove sha1 support

On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 10:26:06AM -0700, James Prestwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 3/13/24 1:56 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Not sure why you're CC'ing the world, but I guess adding a few more
> > doesn't hurt ...
> > 
> > On Wed, 2024-03-13 at 09:50 +0100, Karel Balej wrote:
> > >   and I use iwd
> > This is your problem, the wireless stack in the kernel doesn't use any
> > kernel crypto code for 802.1X.
> 
> Yes, the wireless stack has zero bearing on the issue. I think that's what
> you meant by "problem".
> 
> IWD has used the kernel crypto API forever which was abruptly broken, that
> is the problem.
> 
> The original commit says it was to remove support for sha1 signed kernel
> modules, but it did more than that and broke the keyctl API.
> 

Which specific API is iwd using that is relevant here?
I cloned https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/network/wireless/iwd
and grepped for keyctl and AF_ALG, but there are no matches.

- Eric