[PATCH v3 1/2] certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key

From: Stefan Berger
Date: Wed Apr 21 2021 - 15:43:40 EST


Address a kbuild issue where a developer created an ECDSA key for signing
kernel modules and then builds an older version of the kernel, when bi-
secting the kernel for example, that does not support ECDSA keys.

Trigger the creation of an RSA module signing key if it is not an RSA key.

Fixes: cfc411e7fff3 ("Move certificate handling to its own directory")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
certs/Makefile | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/certs/Makefile b/certs/Makefile
index e3185c57fbd8..f64bc89ccbf1 100644
--- a/certs/Makefile
+++ b/certs/Makefile
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ silent_redirect_openssl = 2>/dev/null
# external private key, because 'make randconfig' might enable such a
# boolean option and we unfortunately can't make it depend on !RANDCONFIG.
ifeq ($(CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY),"certs/signing_key.pem")
+
+X509TEXT=$(shell openssl x509 -in $(CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY) -text)
+
+$(if $(findstring rsaEncryption,$(X509TEXT)),,$(shell rm -f $(CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY)))
+
$(obj)/signing_key.pem: $(obj)/x509.genkey
@$(kecho) "###"
@$(kecho) "### Now generating an X.509 key pair to be used for signing modules."
--
2.29.2