Hi,
> These patches add support for modifying the reserved space for extra
> certificates in a compressed bzImage in x86. This allows separating the
> system keyring certificate from the kernel build process. After the kernel
> image is distributed, the insert-sys-cert script can be used to insert the
> certificate for x86.
I know it's been a while since these patches were posted and they seem to
fail between the cracks ...
Is there anything that prevents merging them?
> Changes:
>
> v5:
> * Added CRC fixing (3/4)
>
> v4:
> * Applied checkpatch.pl suggestions (2/4, 3/4)
> * Cleaned up the commit messages (1/4, 2/4)
> * Added the build file to .gitignore (1/4)
>
> v3:
> * Rewrote 1/4 to insert incompressible bytes are at build time. Previous
> solution required changes to <arch>/boot/Makefile's for modifying the
> vmlinux file after linking, and did not work well with cross compilation.
> * Added 2/4 for ELF class-independent processing of vmlinux file, in case
> the script was compiled for 64-bit and the kernel was compiled for 32-bit.
> * Reordered 3/4, added x86 bzImage boot version (>=2.08) verification.
>
> v2:
> * Rebased arch/boot/x86/Makefile patch (removed in v3)
>
> Mehmet Kayaalp (4):
> KEYS: Insert incompressible bytes to reserve space in bzImage
> KEYS: Add ELF class-independent certificate insertion support
> KEYS: Support for inserting a certificate into x86 bzImage
> KEYS: Print insert-sys-cert information to stdout instead of stderr
>
> certs/.gitignore | 1 +
> certs/Makefile | 21 +-
> certs/system_certificates.S | 2 +-
> scripts/Makefile | 1 +
> scripts/insert-sys-cert.c | 473 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 5 files changed, 381 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-)
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Sincerely yours,
Mike.