Re: [PATCH 6/8] evm: enable key retention service automatically

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Tue Mar 04 2014 - 14:25:16 EST


On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 16:10 +0200, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 16:59 +0200, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
> >> If keys are not enabled, EVM is not visible in the configuration menu.
> >> It may be difficult to figure out what to do unless you really know.
> >>
> >> Other subsystems as NFS, CIFS select keys automatically.
> >> This patch does the same.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> security/integrity/evm/Kconfig | 5 +++--
> >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/Kconfig b/security/integrity/evm/Kconfig
> >> index 5aa9103..d35b491 100644
> >> --- a/security/integrity/evm/Kconfig
> >> +++ b/security/integrity/evm/Kconfig
> >> @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
> >> config EVM
> >> boolean "EVM support"
> >> - depends on SECURITY && KEYS && (TRUSTED_KEYS=y || TRUSTED_KEYS=n)
> >
> > Including KEYS is fine, but the trusted-keys dependency is still
> > required. If trusted-keys is enabled, then the TPM and trusted-keys
> > must be builtin.
> >
>
> Hello.
>
> EVM does not depend on trusted keys, but on encrypted keys.
> There is no need for "&& (TRUSTED_KEYS=y || TRUSTED_KEYS=n)"
>
> Header file already provides all necessary compile time dependencies...
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #if defined(CONFIG_TRUSTED_KEYS) || \
> (defined(CONFIG_TRUSTED_KEYS_MODULE) && defined(CONFIG_ENCRYPTED_KEYS_MODULE))
> extern struct key *request_trusted_key(const char *trusted_desc,
> u8 **master_key, size_t *master_keylen);
> #else
> static inline struct key *request_trusted_key(const char *trusted_desc,
> u8 **master_key,
> size_t *master_keylen)
> {
> return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
> }
> #endif
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Either in the patch description or the changelog, please note the reason
for removing the builtin TRUSTED_KEY dependency.

thanks,

Mimi

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