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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2015-08-11 14:38:54 +0300
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2015-08-12 19:01:01 +0300
commit228c37ff980f5643401a1667f5ab7c6f38602cf8 (patch)
treee5626bde6b067bc3119caba067307439328948a6 /init
parent99db44350672c8a5ee9a7b0a6f4cd6ff10136065 (diff)
downloadlinux-228c37ff980f5643401a1667f5ab7c6f38602cf8.tar.xz
sign-file: Document dependency on OpenSSL devel libraries
The revised sign-file program is no longer a script that wraps the openssl program, but now rather a program that makes use of OpenSSL's crypto library. This means that to build the sign-file program, the kernel build process now has a dependency on the OpenSSL development packages in addition to OpenSSL itself. Document this in Kconfig and in module-signing.txt. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
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@@ -1897,6 +1897,10 @@ config MODULE_SIG
is simply appended to the module. For more information see
Documentation/module-signing.txt.
+ Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a
+ kernel build dependency so that the signing tool can use its crypto
+ library.
+
!!!WARNING!!! If you enable this option, you MUST make sure that the
module DOES NOT get stripped after being signed. This includes the
debuginfo strip done by some packagers (such as rpmbuild) and