linux-kernel - Re: Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all?

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Message-ID: <555C3BFF.4030304@suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 20 May 2015 15:47:11 +0800
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
CC:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Abelardo Ricart III <aricart@...nix.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>, keyrings@...ux-nfs.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all?

Dne 20.5.2015 v 00:23 David Howells napsal(a):
> For my own purposes when running kernels on my test machines, I build kernels
> with all the necessary drivers built in and boot them directly out of the
> build tree by PXE.  Then I copy any modules I'm testing by scp and use them.
> I don't generally use signed modules anymore because the modules aren't signed
> during the build phase but rather during the module installation phase (which
> isn't of any use to me).

If you really wanted, you could do

  make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$pwd/tmp modules_install

and then scp the (signed) module tree in ./tmp.

Michal
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