On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 10:57:59AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 01:41:34PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > Can you consider > > > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230612190047.59755-1-ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx which would > > > make fsverity_get_digest() support both types of IDs? Then you can use > > > FS_VERITY_HASH_ALG_*, which I think would make things slightly easier for you. > > > > Sounds very good to me. I'll rebase the patchset on top of it. Not > > sure how to best land this though, are you ok with this landing via > > overlayfs-next? > > If you're confident that this series will land in v6.4, then sure, you can apply > my patch "fsverity: rework fsverity_get_digest() again" to overlayfs-next, > instead of me taking it through fsverity/for-next. (Hopefully the IMA > maintainer will ack it as well, as it touches security/integrity/.) > > Just be careful about being overly-optimistic about features landing in the next > release. I've had experience with cases like this before, where I didn't apply > something for a reason like this, but then the series didn't make it in right > away so it was worse than me just taking the patch in the first place. > > I do see that the other prerequisites were just applied to overlayfs-next, so > maybe this is good to go now. It's up to the other overlayfs folks. I meant to say 6.5, not 6.4. Anyway, just let me know if I should apply it or not, before it gets too late. - Eric
