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Re: [PATCH, RESEND 08/12] ima: added parser for RPM data type

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH, RESEND 08/12] ima: added parser for RPM data type
Date 2017-08-01 12:30 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 12:20:36PM +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> This patch introduces a parser for RPM packages. It extracts the digests
> from the RPMTAG_FILEDIGESTS header section and converts them to binary data
> before adding them to the hash table.
> 
> The advantage of this data type is that verifiers can determine who
> produced that data, as headers are signed by Linux distributions vendors.
> RPM headers signatures can be provided as digest list metadata.

Err, parsing arbitrary file formats has no business in the kernel.

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[PATCH, RESEND 08/12] ima: added parser for RPM data type Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> - 2017-08-01 12:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH, RESEND 08/12] ima: added parser for RPM data type Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-08-01 12:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH, RESEND 08/12] ima: added parser for RPM data type Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> - 2017-08-01 13:00 +0200
      Re: [Linux-ima-devel] [PATCH, RESEND 08/12] ima: added parser for  RPM data type James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> - 2017-08-02 09:30 +0200
        Re: [Linux-ima-devel] [PATCH, RESEND 08/12] ima: added parser for RPM  data type Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> - 2017-08-02 13:30 +0200
        Re: [Linux-ima-devel] [PATCH, RESEND 08/12] ima: added parser for RPM  data type Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> - 2017-08-09 11:20 +0200
          Re: [Linux-ima-devel] [PATCH, RESEND 08/12] ima: added parser for  RPM data type Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-08-09 16:40 +0200
            Re: [Linux-ima-devel] [PATCH, RESEND 08/12] ima: added parser for RPM  data type Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> - 2017-08-09 19:20 +0200
              Re: [Linux-ima-devel] [PATCH, RESEND 08/12] ima: added parser for  RPM data type Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-08-10 15:20 +0200

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