Re: [PATCH] Fix kexec forbidding kernels signed with custom platform keys to boot

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:19 AM Yannik Sembritzki <yannik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > No, I meant that it would have to go into the proper header files, and
> > also be used by verify_pkcs7_signature() and pkcs7_preparse() etc, so
> > that you could actually grep for this, and understand what it does.
> Thanks, Linus, I'll take care of this right away.
>
> This is my first patch and I'm not familiar with the kernel; can you
> give me a quick hint which header file(s) would be the right place for
> this #define?

I think

    include/linux/verification.h

is the right point, it's where verify_pkcs7_signature() is declared
too (and "struct key" is forward-declared), so it would seem to make
most sense there.

             Linus