[PATCH v6 1/4] kexec: clean up arch_kexec_kernel_verify_sig

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Sun Apr 17 18:40:36 PDT 2022


On 04/15/22 at 05:37pm, Coiby Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 11:44:25AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 04/14/22 at 09:43am, Coiby Xu wrote:
> > > Currently there is no arch-specific implementation of
> > > arch_kexec_kernel_verify_sig. Even if we want to add an implementation
> > > for an architecture in the future, we can simply use "(struct
> > > kexec_file_ops*)->verify_sig". So clean it up.
> > > 
> > > Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
> > > Cc: stable at kernel.org
> > 
> > It should be not worth noticing stable kernel that a clean up patch need
> > be back ported.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion! For the 2nd and 3rd patch, I'll add prerequisite
> info,
> 
> Cc: stable at kernel.org # 34d5960af253: kexec: clean up arch_kexec_kernel_verify_sig
> 
> and
> 
> Cc: stable at kernel.org # 34d5960af253: kexec: clean up arch_kexec_kernel_verify_sig
> Cc: stable at kernel.org # 83b7bb2d49ae: kexec, KEYS: make the code in bzImage64_verify_sig generic
> 
> respectively.

That sounds good, thx.




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