Date:   Tue, 7 Dec 2021 18:32:21 +0100
From:   Michal =?iso-8859-1?Q?Such=E1nek?= <msuchanek@suse.de>
To:     Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] KEXEC_SIG with appended signature
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 05:10:14PM +0100, Philipp Rudo wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> i finally had the time to take a closer look at the series. Except for
> the nit in patch 4 and my personal preference in patch 6 the code looks
> good to me.
> 
> What I don't like are the commit messages on the first commits. In my
> opinion they are so short that they are almost useless. For example in
> patch 2 there is absolutely no explanation why you can simply copy the
> s390 over to ppc.

They use the same signature format. I suppose I can add a note saying
that.

> Or in patch 3 you are silently changing the error
> code in kexec from EKEYREJECT to ENODATA. So I would appreciate it if

Not sure what I should do about this. The different implementations use
different random error codes, and when they are unified the error code
clearly changes for one or the other.

Does anything depend on a particular error code returned?

Thanks

Michal

> you could improve them a little.
> 
> Thanks
> Philipp
> 
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 19:02:38 +0100
> Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > This is resend of the KEXEC_SIG patchset.
> > 
> > The first patch is new because it'a a cleanup that does not require any
> > change to the module verification code.
> > 
> > The second patch is the only one that is intended to change any
> > functionality.
> > 
> > The rest only deduplicates code but I did not receive any review on that
> > part so I don't know if it's desirable as implemented.
> > 
> > The first two patches can be applied separately without the rest.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Michal
> > 
> > Michal Suchanek (6):
> >   s390/kexec_file: Don't opencode appended signature check.
> >   powerpc/kexec_file: Add KEXEC_SIG support.
> >   kexec_file: Don't opencode appended signature verification.
> >   module: strip the signature marker in the verification function.
> >   module: Use key_being_used_for for log messages in
> >     verify_appended_signature
> >   module: Move duplicate mod_check_sig users code to mod_parse_sig
> > 
> >  arch/powerpc/Kconfig                     | 11 +++++
> >  arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c              | 14 ++++++
> >  arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c    | 42 ++----------------
> >  crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c |  1 +
> >  include/linux/module_signature.h         |  1 +
> >  include/linux/verification.h             |  4 ++
> >  kernel/module-internal.h                 |  2 -
> >  kernel/module.c                          | 12 +++--
> >  kernel/module_signature.c                | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  kernel/module_signing.c                  | 33 +++++++-------
> >  security/integrity/ima/ima_modsig.c      | 22 ++--------
> >  11 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
> > 
>