linux-kernel - Re: 4.6 compilation error when making signing key

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Date:	Tue, 17 May 2016 07:56:57 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4.6 compilation error when making signing key

James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:

> CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY="signing_key.pem"
> 
> This should be 'certs/signing_key.pem', right?  

Yeah - it only gets autogenerated if it's that:

	ifeq ($(CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY),"certs/signing_key.pem")

from certs/Makefile.

It may have leaked from an earlier version before the mechanism got moved to
the certs/ directory.

David