# \[PATCH v8 01/17\] KEYS: Create static version of public\_key\_verify\_signature

- From: Eric Snowberg \<eric.snowberg@oracle.com\>
- Date: 2021-11-24 04:47:26 
- List: linux-security-module
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-security-module/2021/11/1583511
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/keyrings/2021/11/1583494/t.md

```text
The kernel test robot reports undefined reference to
public_key_verify_signature when CONFIG_ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE is
not defined. Create a static version in this case and return -EINVAL.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Eric Snowberg <eric.snowberg@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
---
v7: Initial version
v8: Code unmodified from v7 added Mimi's Reviewed-by
---
 include/crypto/public_key.h | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/crypto/public_key.h b/include/crypto/public_key.h
index f603325c0c30..a9b2e600b7cc 100644
--- a/include/crypto/public_key.h
+++ b/include/crypto/public_key.h
@@ -80,7 +80,16 @@ extern int create_signature(struct kernel_pkey_params *, const void *, void *);
 extern int verify_signature(const struct key *,
 			    const struct public_key_signature *);
 
+#if IS_REACHABLE(CONFIG_ASYMMETRIC_PUBLIC_KEY_SUBTYPE)
 int public_key_verify_signature(const struct public_key *pkey,
 				const struct public_key_signature *sig);
+#else
+static inline
+int public_key_verify_signature(const struct public_key *pkey,
+				const struct public_key_signature *sig)
+{
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
+#endif
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_PUBLIC_KEY_H */
-- 
2.18.4

```