Re: [GIT PULL] Miscellaneous keyrings and modsign fixes

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Feb 11 2016 - 06:42:06 EST


Philipp Hahn <hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Am 25.09.2015 um 17:54 schrieb David Howells:
> > Can you pass these changes on to Linus? There are four:
> ...
> > (3) Don't strip leading zeros from the key ID when using it to construct a
> > key description lest this make the key not match.
>
> That commit e7c87bef7de2417b219d4dbfe8d33a0098a8df54 went into v4.3-rc4
> and is required to fix dd2f6c4481debfa389c1f2b2b1d5bd6449c42611, which
> was introduced with 3.18-rc1. As thus I recommend back-porting that fix
> and inclusion into
> 4.2
> 4.1
> 4.0
> 3.19
> 3.18
> The patch is simple enough to be cherry-picked into each branch without
> any fuzz.
>
> We hit that bug and Ubuntu did too:
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1494943>

Sounds good.

David