Re: MODSIGN: Modules fail signature verification with -ENOKEY

From: Chris Samuel
Date: Sat Jan 12 2013 - 01:36:04 EST


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Hi Josh,

On 12/01/13 00:44, Josh Boyer wrote:

Check the installed modules. A simple:

hexdump -C <path to module> | tail -n 20

should be enough to tell you if the installed modules at least look like
they're signed. You should see the expected "~Module signature appended~"
string. You could also check the modules in the kernel build tree for
the same thing. [...]

Good call - neither the modules in the build tree, nor the installed ones are signed. I did a "make mrproper", changed scripts/sign-file to be verbose by default and rebuilt. That confirmed that the modules are getting signed, which left the possibility of make-kpkg stripping the modules after compiling as an option.

Google pointed me at the likely culprit, a patch from a certain Mr Ted Ts'o in 2009 to make-kpkg so that it would strip kernel modules by default.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517290

I'll file a bug against it asking for the it to not strip if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set.

Thanks for the pointer!
Chris
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