Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] kernel: do not strip signed modules

[Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>]

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On 30.03.2021 10:39:41, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:22:40AM +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> > On 30.03.2021 09:53:46, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:08:10AM +0000, Denis Osterland-Heim wrote:
> > > > If CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL is set in kernelconfig then modules will be
> > > > automatically signed during the modules_install phase of a kernel build.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed modules are BRITTLE as the signature is outside of the defined ELF
> > > > container. Thus they MAY NOT be stripped once the signature is computed
> > > > and attached. Note the entire module is the signed payload, including any
> > > > and all debug information present at the time of signing.
> > > 
> > > Hmm, we had the same  issue at some point. The solution was a local copy of
> > > the shell code that does the stripping and installing. I think we added
> > > some code to sign the Modules again.
> > > The result was nice, but the whole thing was rather invasive and makes
> > > assumptions on how the module signing works internally in the kernel.
> > > So it was not something that I wanted to merge mainline that way.
> > > 
> > > In general, I like this approach better. But there are two issues with it.
> > > 
> > > 1. There are redundant options and if the uses gets it wrong then it wont
> > > fail at build time. We can get this from the kernelconfig:
> > > '$(shell ptxd_get_kconfig $(KERNEL_CONFIG) CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL)' I think.
> > > But we have to make sure that it's not evaluated too early. To avoid
> > > slowing down ptxdist startup.
> > > 
> > > 2. The modules are not stripped at all. So we should set
> > > INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 in this case.
> > > 
> > > Marc, what do you think?
> > 
> > The current diff for module re-signing looks like this:
> > 
> > |  # $1: file to strip
> > |  #
> > |  # $strip: k for kernel modules
> > | @@ -425,8 +15,26 @@ ptxd_install_file_strip() {
> > |      esac
> > |  
> > |      files=( "${sdirs[@]/%/${dst}}" )
> > |      install -d "${files[0]%/*}" &&
> > |      "${strip_cmd[@]}" -o "${files[0]}" "${src}" &&
> > | +    if [ "${strip}" = "k" -a -e "${pkg_build_dir}/scripts/sign-file" -a -n "${CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY}" ]; then
> > | +       local sig_hash
> > | +
> > | +       sig_hash="$(ptxd_get_kconfig "${pkg_config}" CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_HASH)" || return
> > | +
> > | +       echo "sign module:"
> > | +       echo "  file=$(ptxd_print_path ${files[0]})"
> > | +       echo "  key=${CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY}"
> > | +       echo "  cert=$(ptxd_print_path ${pkg_build_dir}/certs/signing_key.x509)"
> > | +       echo "  hash=${sig_hash}"
> > | +       echo
> > | +       "${pkg_build_dir}/scripts/sign-file" \
> > | +           "${sig_hash}" \
> > | +           "${CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY}" \
> > | +           "${pkg_build_dir}/certs/signing_key.x509" \
> > | +           "${files[0]}" || return
> > | +    fi
> > | +
> > |      for (( i=1 ; ${i} < ${#files[@]} ; i=$[i+1] )); do
> > |         install -m "${mod_rw}" -D "${files[0]}" "${files[${i}]}" || return
> > |      done &&
> > | @@ -443,658 +51,3 @@ ptxd_install_file_strip() {
> > |      fi
> > |  }
> > 
> > If we don't want to re-sign, we can use the above "if [ "${strip}" = "k"
> > -a ... ]" and don't strip. This means no changes in the kernel.make
> > files are needed.
> 
> I'm pretty sure, that we modified something to get CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY
> defined in this context.

KERNEL_CONF_ENV = \
        $(CODE_SIGNING_ENV) \
        CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY='$(shell cs_get_uri evm)'
        
> And depending on scripts/sign-file is definitely not something I want to do
> here.

We have to call scripts/sign-file to sign modules :)

Marc

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