NAK: [PATCH][SRU][E/Unstable] UBUNTU: [Packaging] Leave unsigned modules unsigned after adding .gnu_debuglink

[Seth Forshee]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 05:10:25PM +0100, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:15:25 -0500
> Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> > BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1850234
> > 
> > When adding .gnu_debuglink sections to modules we sign modules
> > without regard to whether or not they were signed previously. As
> > a result modules from staging which should not have been signed
> > are ending up with signature. Change this to check for a module
> > signature before modifying the binary, then sign the result only
> > if the original module was signed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
> > ---
> >  debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk | 6 +++++-
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk b/debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk
> > index 82e4d80e469f..2aea5e857f79 100644
> > --- a/debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk
> > +++ b/debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk
> > @@ -413,10 +413,14 @@ ifneq ($(skipdbg),true)
> >  	  -name '*.ko' | while read path_module ; do \
> >  		module="/lib/modules/$${path_module#*/lib/modules/}"; \
> >  		if [[ -f "$(dbgpkgdir)/usr/lib/debug/$$module" ]] ; then \
> > +			while IFS= read -r -d '' signature < <(tail -c 28 "$$path_module"); do \
> > +				break; \
> > +			done; \
> 
> I'm not a big fan of this since I don't understand why the while..do is
> necessary. Also, can't we simply do 'signature=$(tail -c 28 "$$path_module")?
> Yes, that drops the trailing newline but imho if we get the '~Module signature
> appended~' string back then we can be fairly certain that the module is signed.
> 
> Or just let modinfo do the parsing then we don't have to read a magic number of
> bytes from the end of the module:
> signer=$(modinfo -F signer '$$path_module'). If the string is non-empty, the
> module is signed.
> 
> >  			$(CROSS_COMPILE)objcopy \
> >  				--add-gnu-debuglink=$(dbgpkgdir)/usr/lib/debug/$$module \
> >  				$$path_module; \
> > -			if grep -q CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y $(builddir)/build-$*/.config; then \
> > +			if grep -q CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y $(builddir)/build-$*/.config && \
> > +			   [ "$$signature" = $$'~Module signature appended~\n' ]; then \
> 
> and then
> [ -n "$$signer" ]; then \

Didn't know that modinfo supported this. Based on  looking at the
source, this is a better check anyhow, so I'll update the patch to use
that.

Thanks,
Seth

> 
> >  				$(builddir)/build-$*/scripts/sign-file $(MODHASHALGO) \
> >  					$(MODSECKEY) \
> >  					$(MODPUBKEY) \
> 
> ...Juerg