Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] new dracut modules

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On Thursday, July 07, 2011 03:53:22 PM Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 18:23 +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > this patch set introduces three new modules (masterkey, integrity and
> > ecryptfs) and allows to mount the securityfs filesystem from the initial
> > ramdisk.
> > 
> > These patches are based upon the first version sent by Mimi Zohar, which
> > can be retrieved at the address:
> > 
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.initramfs/1910
> > 
> > Roberto Sassu 
> 
> Nice!  Thanks Roberto for updating the modules. They're look really
> good.
> 
> One really minor issue is that although the user can override the
> default masterkey blob filename, using a boot command line option, the
> default filename is kernel version specific.  Until the tools are
> available to create and seal keys to a set of PCRs, as we discussed,
> perhaps there should be an additional filename default, without the
> kernel version appended, as well.
> 

Hi Mimi

thanks.
I think we can solve this issue by adding a new option, called
'MULTIKERNELMODE', which can be used to decide if the kernel
version should be added to the default masterkey filename or
not. By default, we can set its value to 'NO'.

Roberto Sassu


> thanks,  
> 
> Mimi
> 
> 
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