Re: [RFC PATCH 02/20] KEYS: Add a system blacklist keyring [ver #2]

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Mon Feb 08 2016 - 11:40:05 EST


On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 14:55 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > By separating out the blacklist keyring from the issue of trust, you'll have
> > smaller patch sets that can more easily be reviewed. (Reviewing anything
> > having to do with certificates is difficult enough.) It would also allow
> > you to upstream the two patch sets independently of each other.
>
> Unfortunately, there's a dependency between the subsets you're talking about
> in the form of the restriction function passed to keyring_alloc() - an
> argument that's only made available in the other subset, so they cannot be
> completely independent.
>
> That said, the trust changes don't require the blacklist changes.

Right, I should have said the blacklist changes are dependent on the
trusted keyring changes.

In the "trust" patch set, could you please include Mehmet's patch?

Thanks!

Mimi