Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Fri Jul 02 2021 - 02:49:44 EST


On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 12:17:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 2:34 PM Stefan Berger
> <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> Thanks, these two don't confuse me any more.
>
> Linus

I'll (re-)test the changes, and make a PR after rc1 out.

/Jarkko