Re: [PATCH] integrity: don't throw an error immediately when failed to add a cert to the .machine keyring

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Wed Jan 03 2024 - 09:09:50 EST


On Wed Dec 27, 2023 at 6:41 AM EET, Coiby Xu wrote:
> Currently when the kernel fails to add a cert to the .machine keyring,
> it will throw an error immediately in the function integrity_add_key.
>
> Since the kernel will try adding to the .platform keyring next or throw
> an error (in the caller of integrity_add_key i.e. add_to_machine_keyring),
> so there is no need to throw an error immediately in integrity_add_key.
>
> Reported-by: itrymybest80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Missing "Firstname Lastname".

> Closes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239331
> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/integrity/digsig.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/integrity/digsig.c b/security/integrity/digsig.c
> index df387de29bfa..45c3e5dda355 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/digsig.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/digsig.c
> @@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ static int __init integrity_add_key(const unsigned int id, const void *data,
> KEY_ALLOC_NOT_IN_QUOTA);
> if (IS_ERR(key)) {
> rc = PTR_ERR(key);
> - pr_err("Problem loading X.509 certificate %d\n", rc);
> + if (id != INTEGRITY_KEYRING_MACHINE)
> + pr_err("Problem loading X.509 certificate %d\n", rc);
> } else {
> pr_notice("Loaded X.509 cert '%s'\n",
> key_ref_to_ptr(key)->description);

BR, Jarkko