Re: next-20190705 - problems generating certs/x509_certificate_list

[Eric Biggers]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 11:44:18PM -0400, Valdis KlÄtnieks wrote:
> This worked fine in next-20190618, but in next-20190701 I'm seeing dmesg
> entries at boot:
> 
> dmesg | grep -i x.509
> [    8.345699] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates
> [    8.366137] Problem loading in-kernel X.509 certificate (-13)
> [    8.507348] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database
> [    8.526556] cfg80211: Problem loading in-kernel X.509 certificate (-13)
> 
> I start debugging, and discover that certs/x509_certificate_list is a zero-length file.
> I rm it, and 'make V=1 certs/system_certificates.o', which tells me:
> 
> (....)
> make -f ./scripts/Makefile.headersinst obj=include/uapi
> make -f ./scripts/Makefile.headersinst obj=arch/x86/include/uapi
> make -f ./scripts/Makefile.build obj=certs certs/system_certificates.o
> ---- smoking gun alert
>   scripts/extract-cert "" certs/x509_certificate_list
> ----
>   gcc -Wp,-MD,certs/.system_certificates.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/9/include -I./arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated  -I./include -I./arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I./include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include ./include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -D__ASSEMBLY__ -fno-PIE -m64 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SSSE3=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX512=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SHA1_NI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SHA256_NI=1 -Wa,-gdwarf-2 -DCC_USING_FENTRY -I.   -c -o certs/system_certificates.o certs/system_certificates.S
> 
> I go look at extract-cert.c, and sure enough, if the first parameter is a null string
> it just goes and creates an empty file.
> 
> The Makefile says:
> 
> quiet_cmd_extract_certs  = EXTRACT_CERTS   $(patsubst "%",%,$(2))
>       cmd_extract_certs  = scripts/extract-cert $(2) $@
> 
> and damned if I know why $(2) is "". Diffed the config files from -0618 and -0705,
> not seeing anything relevant difference.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

I'm seeing on mainline now:

[   10.915386] Problem loading in-kernel X.509 certificate (-13)

- Eric