Re: [PATCH v2] MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enablingmodules signature

From: David Cohen
Date: Wed Apr 10 2013 - 12:13:20 EST


On 04/10/2013 03:32 AM, Rusty Russell wrote:
David Cohen <david.a.cohen@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
openssl may send garbage to stderr when generating X.509 key pair for
modules signature regardless there was an error or not. It makes more
difficult to create scripts based on kernel error/warning messages.

When compiling kernel with -jN (N > 1), all warning/error messages
printed while openssl is generating key pair may get mixed dots and
other symbols openssl sends to stderr. This patch makes sure openssl
logs go to default stdout.
Ah! Not garbage, but it writes progress dots and status messages to
stderr?

I trimmed your commit message as shown below.

Thanks! The new commit message looks fine.
But it's not the dots. It prints the whole logs to stderr, but the dots are more likely to get mixed.

Br, David


Thanks!
Rusty.

From: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enabling modules signature

When compiling kernel with -jN (N > 1), all warning/error messages
printed while openssl is generating key pair may get mixed dots and
other symbols openssl sends to stderr. This patch makes sure openssl
logs go to default stdout.

Example of the garbage on stderr:

crypto/anubis.c:581: warning: âinterâ is used uninitialized in this function
Generating a 4096 bit RSA private key
.........
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c: In function âgen6_ggtt_insert_entriesâ:
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c:440: warning: âaddrâ may be used uninitialized in this function
.net/mac80211/tx.c: In function âieee80211_subif_start_xmitâ:
net/mac80211/tx.c:1780: warning: âchanctx_confâ may be used uninitialized in this function
..drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c: In function âhfcpci_softirqâ:
.....drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c:2298: warning: ignoring return value of âdriver_for_each_deviceâ, declared with attribute warn_unused_result

Signed-off-by: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: mark gross <mark.gross@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index bbde5f1..5a51e6c 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ signing_key.priv signing_key.x509: x509.genkey
openssl req -new -nodes -utf8 -$(CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_HASH) -days 36500 \
-batch -x509 -config x509.genkey \
-outform DER -out signing_key.x509 \
- -keyout signing_key.priv
+ -keyout signing_key.priv 2>&1
@echo "###"
@echo "### Key pair generated."
@echo "###"


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