linux-kernel - Re: RFC: sign the modules at install time

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Date:	Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:58:11 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: sign the modules at install time

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> Tssk. I fixed it up, and now it works-for-me(tm), but some perl person
>> probably really should try to make that sign-file and x509keyid merge.
>> My fix made the thing even slower, doing two extra "wc -c" invocations
>> since it can't do "${#..}" expansion due to the locale problem.
>
> Hmm. I haven't seen this breakage personally yet, but looking more at
> Rusty's last changes I'm pretty sure my fixes are potentially not
> sufficient.

Sorry for posting untested hack :(

Thanks for the rewrite David; modules_install here was 18.6 seconds,
became 19.1 with my broken hack, now 17.3 seconds.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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