On Fri, 2019-05-10 at 08:56 +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote: > On 5/9/2019 8:34 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > > On 5/9/19 6:24 AM, Roberto Sassu wrote: > >> The difference with another proposal > >> (https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/888071/) is that xattrs can be > >> included in an image without changing the image format, as opposed to > >> defining a new one. As seen from the discussion, if a new format has to be > >> defined, it should fix the issues of the existing format, which requires > >> more time. > > > > So you've explicitly chosen _not_ to address Y2038 while you're there. > > Can you be more specific? Right, this patch set avoids incrementing the CPIO magic number and the resulting changes required (eg. increasing the timestamp field size), by including a file with the security xattrs in the CPIO. In either case, including the security xattrs in the initramfs header or as a separate file, the initramfs, itself, needs to be signed. Mimi
