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

From	Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH 02/20] KEYS: Add a system blacklist keyring [ver #2]
Date	2016-02-08 17:50 +0100
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On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 14:55 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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

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Re: [RFC PATCH 02/20] KEYS: Add a system blacklist keyring [ver #2] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-02-03 16:30 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH 02/20] KEYS: Add a system blacklist keyring [ver #2] Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-08 14:40 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH 02/20] KEYS: Add a system blacklist keyring [ver #2] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-02-08 15:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH 02/20] KEYS: Add a system blacklist keyring [ver #2] Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-08 16:10 +0100
        How to add additional blacklist entries? David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-02-08 17:00 +0100
          Re: How to add additional blacklist entries? Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-08 17:40 +0100
            Re: How to add additional blacklist entries? David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-02-08 17:50 +0100
              Re: How to add additional blacklist entries? Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-08 20:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH 02/20] KEYS: Add a system blacklist keyring [ver #2] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-02-08 16:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH 02/20] KEYS: Add a system blacklist keyring [ver #2] Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-02-08 17:50 +0100

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