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From:   Michal =?iso-8859-1?Q?Such=E1nek?= <msuchanek@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15 0/6] arm64: kexec_file: use more system keyrings to
 verify kernel image signature + dependencies
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Hello,

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 03:03:36PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 19:10 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > this is backport of commit 0d519cadf751
> > ("arm64: kexec_file: use more system keyrings to verify kernel image signature")
> > to table 5.15 tree including the preparatory patches.
> > 
> > Some patches needed minor adjustment for context.
> 
> In general when backporting this patch set, there should be a
> dependency on backporting these commits as well.  In this instance for
> linux-5.15.y, they've already been backported.
> 
> 543ce63b664e ("lockdown: Fix kexec lockdown bypass with ima policy")
> af16df54b89d ("ima: force signature verification when CONFIG_KEXEC_SIG is configured")

Thanks for bringing these up. It might be in general useful to backport
these fixes as well.

However, this patchset does one very specific thing: it lifts the x86
kexec_file signature verification to arch-independent and uses it on
arm64 to unify all features (and any existing warts) between EFI
architectures.

So unless I am missing something the fixes you pointed out are
completely independent of this.

Thanks

Michal