Re: [PATCH v2] KEYS: trusted: fix use as module when CONFIG_TCG_TPM=m

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:29:38AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> On 28.07.21 23:52, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 06:24:49AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> >> On 27.07.21 05:04, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> >>>> Reported-by: Andreas Rammhold <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Fixes: 5d0682be3189 ("KEYS: trusted: Add generic trusted keys framework")
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> Is it absolutely need to do all this *just* to fix the bug?
> >>>
> >>> For a pure bug fix the most essential thing is to be able the backport
> >>> it to stable kernels.
> >>
> >> Not much happened in-between, so a backport should be trivial.
> >> I can provide these if needed.
> > 
> > "not much" is not good enough. It should be "not anything".
> 
> "Not much" [code that could conflict was added in-between].
> 
> I just checked and it applies cleanly on v5.13. On the off chance
> that this patch conflicts with another stable backport by the time
> it's backported, I'll get a friendly automated email and send out
> a rebased patch.

What you should do is to split this into patch that exactly
fixes the issue, and to one that adds the "niceties".

/Jarkko