Re: [GIT PULL] TPM DEVICE DRIVER changes for v5.14

[Stefan Berger]

On 6/28/21 3:27 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 12:21 PM Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Correct, and the code (certs/Makefile) is surrounded by the check for
> > this particular file here, so it won't touch anything else:
> Ahh, I missed that part.
>
> Can we just make it really really obvious, and not use
> CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY at all, then?
>
> IOW, make these literally be about "certs/signing_key.pem" and nothing
> else, so that when people grep for this, or look at the Makefile, they
> don't fall into that trap I fell into?

Yes, sir.

   Stefan


> That also would make it obvious that there are no pathname quoting issues etc.
>
>               Linus