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| author | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2015-07-20 21:16:31 +0100 |
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| committer | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2015-08-07 16:26:14 +0100 |
| commit | 99d27b1b52bd5cdf9bd9f7661ca8641e9a1b55e6 (patch) | |
| tree | 8525b8bd99f20016d7e893fa4218951a0b249364 /Documentation/module-signing.txt | |
| parent | fb1179499134bc718dc7557c7a6a95dc72f224cb (diff) | |
modsign: Add explicit CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS option
Let the user explicitly provide a file containing trusted keys, instead of
just automatically finding files matching *.x509 in the build tree and
trusting whatever we find. This really ought to be an *explicit*
configuration, and the build rules for dealing with the files were
fairly painful too.
Fix applied from James Morris that removes an '=' from a macro definition
in kernel/Makefile as this is a feature that only exists from GNU make 3.82
onwards.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/module-signing.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/module-signing.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/module-signing.txt b/Documentation/module-signing.txt index 5d5e4e32dc26..4e62bc29666e 100644 --- a/Documentation/module-signing.txt +++ b/Documentation/module-signing.txt @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ This has a number of options available: than being a module) so that modules signed with that algorithm can have their signatures checked without causing a dependency loop. + (4) "File name or PKCS#11 URI of module signing key" (CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY) Setting this option to something other than its default of @@ -104,6 +105,13 @@ This has a number of options available: means of the KBUILD_SIGN_PIN variable. + (5) "Additional X.509 keys for default system keyring" (CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS) + + This option can be set to the filename of a PEM-encoded file containing + additional certificates which will be included in the system keyring by + default. + + ======================= GENERATING SIGNING KEYS ======================= @@ -171,10 +179,9 @@ in a keyring called ".system_keyring" that can be seen by: 302d2d52 I------ 1 perm 1f010000 0 0 asymmetri Fedora kernel signing key: d69a84e6bce3d216b979e9505b3e3ef9a7118079: X509.RSA a7118079 [] ... -Beyond the public key generated specifically for module signing, any file -placed in the kernel source root directory or the kernel build root directory -whose name is suffixed with ".x509" will be assumed to be an X.509 public key -and will be added to the keyring. +Beyond the public key generated specifically for module signing, additional +trusted certificates can be provided in a PEM-encoded file referenced by the +CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS configuration option. Further, the architecture code may take public keys from a hardware store and add those in also (e.g. from the UEFI key database). |