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X.509: Remove certificate date checks
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:40:44 +0000 (17:40 +0100)
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:17:01 +0000 (17:17 +0100)
commit46b252173f8b1bff77cd936ba8e08a35df2a466b
treee9d05eaea4ad42e982e1b46961201dc5d91d8492
parent4041e8b633c4e98b4da4e1b616c5abf9c4fd0705
X.509: Remove certificate date checks

Remove the certificate date checks that are performed when a certificate is
parsed.  There are two checks: a valid from and a valid to.  The first check is
causing a lot of problems with system clocks that don't keep good time and the
second places an implicit expiry date upon the kernel when used for module
signing, so do we really need them?

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
cc: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c