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On 3/12/20 10:57 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
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<snip> > The git tags are still signed by Linus. Does that cover your concerns?
Not really, no. I think that multiplying the intermediaries between kernel.org and the Fedora repos by adding gitlab.com in the middle might not be the best of ideas.
If the Fedora security team is fine with it, I'm fine with it, and even if I understand the practical concerns (pagure not being up to par to deal with repos that size, and without a mail gateway support), I find it slightly concerning.
I think this boils down to how much do you trust the kernel maintainers. Keep in mind that the existing model requires the kernel maintainers to manually pull down a tree and extract the tarball and then upload. You can probably trust them to not do anything malicious but mistakes can happen (source: I screwed up many times). It's good to be concerned about provenance as a threat model but I consider maintainers screwing up manual tasks to be a bigger threat model to Fedora kernel security so anything that moves towards automation is a benefit in my eyes.
For me, it's about how much we trust gitlab.com _in addition_ to trusting kernel.org and fedoraproject.org. I wouldn't be concerned at all if the new "in-between" tree was at either of those 2 locations.