KEYS: validate certificate trust only with selected key

Instead of allowing public keys, with certificates signed by any
key on the system trusted keyring, to be added to a trusted keyring,
this patch further restricts the certificates to those signed by a
particular key on the system keyring.

This patch defines a new kernel parameter 'ca_keys' to identify the
specific key which must be used for trust validation of certificates.

Simplified Mimi's "KEYS: define an owner trusted keyring" patch.

Changelog:
- support for builtin x509 public keys only
- export "asymmetric_keyid_match"
- remove ifndefs MODULE
- rename kernel boot parameter from keys_ownerid to ca_keys

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Dmitry Kasatkin
2014-06-17 11:56:58 +03:00
committed by Mimi Zohar
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@@ -566,6 +566,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
possible to determine what the correct size should be.
This option provides an override for these situations.
ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
trust validation.
format: id:<keyid>
ccw_timeout_log [S390]
See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.