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

On 07:27 27.09.21, Mimi Zohar wrote:

On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 10:51 +0200, Andreas Rammhold wrote:

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On 09:47 13.09.21, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:

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Dear trusted key maintainers,

On 30.07.21 03:28, Andreas Rammhold wrote:

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Before this commit the kernel could end up with no trusted key sources
even though both of the currently supported backends (TPM and TEE) were
compiled as modules. This manifested in the trusted key type not being
registered at all.

When checking if a CONFIG_… preprocessor variable is defined we only
test for the builtin (=y) case and not the module (=m) case. By using
the IS_REACHABLE() macro we do test for both cases.

Fixes: 5d0682be3189 ("KEYS: trusted: Add generic trusted keys framework")
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rammhold <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>

Does anyone intend to pick this up?

Did this end up in any tree by now? I am wondering if I should resend
the patch instead. Perhaps it was just overlooked?

For EVM environments only using trusted and encrypted keys, not file
signatures, the trusted key is needed to decrypt the "master" key in
order to verify kernel modules.

So what you are saying is that right now (before this patch & after this
patch) you could compile a kernel that wouldn't be able to load any
modules when the trusted keychain part is built as module?


Andi