Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 5 authors, 2019-08-21

Re: [GIT PULL] Keys: Set 4 - Key ACLs for 5.3

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2019-07-10 18:35:31
Also in: keyrings, linux-cifs, linux-fsdevel, linux-integrity, linux-nfs, lkml, netdev

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 2:30 PM David Howells [off-list ref] wrote:
Here's my fourth block of keyrings changes for the next merge window.  They
change the permissions model used by keys and keyrings to be based on an
internal ACL by the following means:
It turns out that this is broken, and I'll probably have to revert the
merge entirely.

With this merge in place, I can't boot any of the machines that have
an encrypted disk setup. The boot just stops at

  systemd[1]: Started Forward Password Requests to Plymouth Directory Watch.
  systemd[1]: Reached target Paths.

and never gets any further. I never get the prompt for a passphrase
for the disk encryption.

Apparently not a lot of developers are using encrypted volumes for
their development machines.

I'm not sure if the only requirement is an encrypted volume, or if
this is also particular to a F30 install in case you need to be able
to reproduce. But considering that you have a redhat email address,
I'm sure you can find a F30 install somewhere with an encrypted disk.

David, if you can fix this quickly, I'll hold off on the revert of it
all, but I can wait only so long. I've stopped merging stuff since I
noticed my machines don't work (this merge window has not been
pleasant so far - in addition to this issue I had another entirely
unrelated boot failure which made bisecting this one even more fun).

So if I don't see a quick fix, I'll just revert in order to then
continue to do pull requests later today. Because I do not want to do
further pulls with something that I can't boot as a base.

                 Linus
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