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Monitoring the kernel.org Transparency Log for a year (linderud.dev)
38 points by mdb31 on April 16, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


So, I'm not entirely sure what this post is describing. It doesn't seem like there is a "kernel.org transparency log" in general, but it's something that the blog author is maintaining?

However, a "Git transparency log" does sound like a good idea at several levels. Is anyone else looking into this?


The kernel.org transparency log is a git repository maintained by Konstantin Ryabitsev.

What I did, and the post describes, is a monitor for this log. It also doubles as a verifier which can check if all commits in a kernel release is actually present on the log.


Could it also be used to check whether all security related patches have actually been added to a kernel source tree? For example flag which commits are missing when cherry picking patches into a particular kernel release ...


Not really. We don't have any contextual information around the patches so that would be hard to infer.




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