Hi, > These patches add support for modifying the reserved space for extra > certificates in a compressed bzImage in x86. This allows separating the > system keyring certificate from the kernel build process. After the kernel > image is distributed, the insert-sys-cert script can be used to insert the > certificate for x86.
I know it's been a while since these patches were posted and they seem to fail between the cracks ... Is there anything that prevents merging them? > Changes: > > v5: > * Added CRC fixing (3/4) > > v4: > * Applied checkpatch.pl suggestions (2/4, 3/4) > * Cleaned up the commit messages (1/4, 2/4) > * Added the build file to .gitignore (1/4) > > v3: > * Rewrote 1/4 to insert incompressible bytes are at build time. Previous > solution required changes to <arch>/boot/Makefile's for modifying the > vmlinux file after linking, and did not work well with cross compilation. > * Added 2/4 for ELF class-independent processing of vmlinux file, in case > the script was compiled for 64-bit and the kernel was compiled for 32-bit. > * Reordered 3/4, added x86 bzImage boot version (>=2.08) verification. > > v2: > * Rebased arch/boot/x86/Makefile patch (removed in v3) > > Mehmet Kayaalp (4): > KEYS: Insert incompressible bytes to reserve space in bzImage > KEYS: Add ELF class-independent certificate insertion support > KEYS: Support for inserting a certificate into x86 bzImage > KEYS: Print insert-sys-cert information to stdout instead of stderr > > certs/.gitignore | 1 + > certs/Makefile | 21 +- > certs/system_certificates.S | 2 +- > scripts/Makefile | 1 + > scripts/insert-sys-cert.c | 473 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- > 5 files changed, 381 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-) -- Sincerely yours, Mike.
