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| author | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2015-07-20 21:16:30 +0100 |
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| committer | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2015-08-07 16:26:14 +0100 |
| commit | 1329e8cc69b93a0b1bc6d197b30dcff628c18dbf (patch) | |
| tree | c468b5fe99777d0e5072b1bc41f43ef47253cf8e /init/Kconfig | |
| parent | 19e91b69d77bab16405cc284b451378e89a4110c (diff) | |
| download | lwn-1329e8cc69b93a0b1bc6d197b30dcff628c18dbf.tar.gz lwn-1329e8cc69b93a0b1bc6d197b30dcff628c18dbf.zip | |
modsign: Extract signing cert from CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY if needed
Where an external PEM file or PKCS#11 URI is given, we can get the cert
from it for ourselves instead of making the user drop signing_key.x509
in place for us.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 1b1148e9181b..e2e0a1d27886 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1953,10 +1953,10 @@ config MODULE_SIG_KEY default "signing_key.priv" depends on MODULE_SIG help - Provide the file name of a private key in PKCS#8 PEM format, or - a PKCS#11 URI according to RFC7512. The corresponding X.509 - certificate in DER form should be present in signing_key.x509 - in the top-level build directory. + Provide the file name of a private key/certificate in PEM format, + or a PKCS#11 URI according to RFC7512. The file should contain, or + the URI should identify, both the certificate and its corresponding + private key. If this option is unchanged from its default "signing_key.priv", then the kernel will automatically generate the private key and |