Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Tue Jun 01 2021 - 13:58:45 EST


On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 06:52:44AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> Address a kbuild issue where a developer created an ECDSA key for signing
> kernel modules and then builds an older version of the kernel, when bi-
> secting the kernel for example, that does not support ECDSA keys.
>
> Trigger the creation of an RSA module signing key if it is not an RSA key.
>
> Fixes: cfc411e7fff3 ("Move certificate handling to its own directory")
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I've applied these to

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd.git

Can revert too but do not mind taking care of these patches as they are
not intrusive in any possible way.

/Jarkko