Re: [PATCH] builddeb: fix stripped module signatures if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO and CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL are set

Michal Marek
2015-05-06T13:30:32Z

On 2015-05-04 17:37, Andrey Skvortsov wrote:
> On 22 Apr, maximilian attems wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 03:58:48PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>>> (added Max to Cc)
>>>
>>> On 2015-03-16 09:20, Andrey Skvortsov wrote:
>>>> If CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL is set, then user expects that all modules are
>>>> automatically signed in the result package, as it's for rpm-pkg, binrpm-pkg,
>>>> tar, tar-*. For deb-pkg this is correct only if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
>>>> is NOT set. In that case deb-package contains signed modules.
>>>>
>>>> But if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is set, builddeb creates separate package with
>>>> debug information. To do that, debug information from all modules
>>>> is copied into separate files by objcopy. And loadable kernel modules are
>>>> stripped afterwards. Stripping removes previously (during modules_install)
>>>> added signatures from loadable kernel modules. Therefore final deb-package
>>>> contains unsigned modules despite of set option CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL.
>>>>
>>>> This patch resigns all stripped modules if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL is set
>>>> to solve this problem.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Max, Ben, are you fine with this patch? It looks OK to me, the
>>> modules_sign target has been added for this very purpose.
>>>
>>
>> Ben seems busy with the release, so jumping in. The patch looks
>> perfect to me.
>>
>> Acked-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
>>
> Maximilian, thanks for the review.
>
> Michal, are we waiting for Ben's acknowledge too?

I applied the patch to kbuild.git#misc now, after fixing the whitespace.
Andrey, please use tabs for indentation, especially when the surrounding
code is already using this style.

Michal