Re: [PATCH] MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enabling modules signature

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

David Cohen <david.a.cohen@intel.com> writes:
> openssl may send garbage to stderr when generating X.509 key pair for
> modules signature regardless there was an error or not. It makes more
> difficult to create scripts based on kernel error/warning messages.
> This patch makes sure openssl logs go to default stdout.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@intel.com>

Can you please give an example of the "garbage" in your commit message,
or is it binary?

Thanks,
Rusty,.

> ---
>  kernel/Makefile |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
> index bbde5f1..5a51e6c 100644
> --- a/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ signing_key.priv signing_key.x509: x509.genkey
>  	openssl req -new -nodes -utf8 -$(CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_HASH) -days 36500 \
>  		-batch -x509 -config x509.genkey \
>  		-outform DER -out signing_key.x509 \
> -		-keyout signing_key.priv
> +		-keyout signing_key.priv 2>&1
>  	@echo "###"
>  	@echo "### Key pair generated."
>  	@echo "###"
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4