Commit 7d30198e authored by Andrew Zaborowski's avatar Andrew Zaborowski Committed by Jarkko Sakkinen
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keys: X.509 public key issuer lookup without AKID

There are non-root X.509 v3 certificates in use out there that contain
no Authority Key Identifier extension (RFC5280 section 4.2.1.1).  For
trust verification purposes the kernel asymmetric key type keeps two
struct asymmetric_key_id instances that the key can be looked up by,
and another two to look up the key's issuer.  The x509 public key type
and the PKCS7 type generate them from the SKID and AKID extensions in
the certificate.  In effect current code has no way to look up the
issuer certificate for verification without the AKID.

To remedy this, add a third asymmetric_key_id blob to the arrays in
both asymmetric_key_id's (for certficate subject) and in the
public_keys_signature's auth_ids (for issuer lookup), using just raw
subject and issuer DNs from the certificate.  Adapt
asymmetric_key_ids() and its callers to use the third ID for lookups
when none of the other two are available.  Attempt to keep the logic
intact when they are, to minimise behavi...
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