Re: [RFC v3 21/27] crypto: ecdsa: Load early in boot

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:29:28 +1000
alistair23@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Work is ongoing to support PCIe device attestation and authentication.
> As part of this probing a PCIe device will require signing via
> the SPDM protocol to the kernel.
> 
> Linux should verify the device before enabling the device, which means we
> need the crypto functions to be ready before arch initilisation (where PCIe
> init happens). Move the crypto init to postcore to
> ensure it's loaded before PCIe devices.
> 
> This allows us to verify the certificate chain provided by a PCIe device
> via SPDM before we enable it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxx>
Whilst others may disagree, I think it still makes sense to check
signatures against the provided public leaf cert even if we aren't
checking the cert chain in kernel.  That will need this.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  crypto/ecdsa.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/crypto/ecdsa.c b/crypto/ecdsa.c
> index ce8e4364842f..b225911c5266 100644
> --- a/crypto/ecdsa.c
> +++ b/crypto/ecdsa.c
> @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static void __exit ecdsa_exit(void)
>  	crypto_unregister_sig(&ecdsa_nist_p521);
>  }
>  
> -module_init(ecdsa_init);
> +postcore_initcall(ecdsa_init);
>  module_exit(ecdsa_exit);
>  
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");