# Re: \[PATCH v8 1/2\] certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key

- From: Jarkko Sakkinen \<jarkko@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2021-07-02 06:49:44 
- List: linux-security-module
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-security-module/2021/07/1431240
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/keyrings/2021/06/1429290/t.md

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On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 12:17:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 2:34 PM Stefan Berger
> [ref] wrote:
> >
> > Address a kbuild issue where a developer created an ECDSA key for signing
> > kernel modules and then builds an older version of the kernel, when bi-
> > secting the kernel for example, that does not support ECDSA keys.
> 
> Thanks, these two don't confuse me any more.
> 
>                 Linus

I'll (re-)test the changes, and make a PR after rc1 out.

/Jarkko
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