From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753102Ab2KEDYW (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Nov 2012 22:24:22 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:45504 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752501Ab2KEDYT (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Nov 2012 22:24:19 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Josh Boyer Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MODSIGN: Add modules_sign make target In-Reply-To: <20121102124834.GQ6627@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org> References: <20121031135605.GJ6627@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org> <87zk314w1t.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20121101112535.GL6627@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org> <87ip9o4rpp.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20121102124834.GQ6627@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.14 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:41:16 +1030 Message-ID: <87sj8oyf23.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Josh Boyer writes: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 01:49:14PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: >> My comment was more that this relies on eu-strip, because we always >> sign modules on installation, so you need eu-strip to *unsign* them >> (strip won't do it, BTW). > > Really? Which version of binutils are you using? The strip I have here > seems to have no qualms about stripping off the signatures: ... > So that makes me very curious. Hmm, Works For Me too. Searches for evidence... Nope, I'm completely off-base here. I wrote the exact opposite last year: On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:31:15 +1030 I wrote: > But objdump doesn't care about appended data. > objcopy and strip will remove it, of course, but without complaining. Sorry for the noise, Rusty.