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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Andrey Skvortsov <Andrej.Skvortzov@gmail.com>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builddeb: fix stripped module signatures if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO and CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL are set
Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 15:30:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <554A1774.6080801@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150504153724.GA26392@nest>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-06 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-16  8:20 [PATCH] builddeb: fix stripped module signatures if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO and CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL are set Andrey Skvortsov
2015-04-21 13:58 ` Michal Marek
2015-04-22 15:57   ` maximilian attems
2015-05-04 15:37     ` Andrey Skvortsov
2015-05-04 18:22       ` Ben Hutchings
2015-05-06 13:30       ` Michal Marek [this message]
2015-05-08 11:11         ` Andrey Skvortsov
2015-05-08 13:47         ` maximilian attems

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