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| author | Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> | 2024-10-16 16:18:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> | 2025-01-26 13:05:24 +0100 |
| commit | f3b93547b91ad849b58eb5ab2dd070950ad7beb3 (patch) | |
| tree | 87412d937f6ededdc1f554012fa61a10f6447419 /kernel | |
| parent | 110b1e070f1d50f5217bd2c758db094998bb7b77 (diff) | |
module: sign with sha512 instead of sha1 by default
Switch away from using sha1 for module signing by default and use the
more modern sha512 instead, which is what among others Arch, Fedora,
RHEL, and Ubuntu are currently using for their kernels.
Sha1 has not been considered secure against well-funded opponents since
2005[1]; since 2011 the NIST and other organizations furthermore
recommended its replacement[2]. This is why OpenSSL on RHEL9, Fedora
Linux 41+[3], and likely some other current and future distributions
reject the creation of sha1 signatures, which leads to a build error of
allmodconfig configurations:
80A20474797F0000:error:03000098:digital envelope routines:do_sigver_init:invalid digest:crypto/evp/m_sigver.c:342:
make[4]: *** [.../certs/Makefile:53: certs/signing_key.pem] Error 1
make[4]: *** Deleting file 'certs/signing_key.pem'
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[3]: *** [.../scripts/Makefile.build:478: certs] Error 2
make[2]: *** [.../Makefile:1936: .] Error 2
make[1]: *** [.../Makefile:224: __sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '...'
make: *** [Makefile:224: __sub-make] Error 2
This change makes allmodconfig work again and sets a default that is
more appropriate for current and future users, too.
Link: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/cryptanalysis_o.html [1]
Link: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/hash-functions [2]
Link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OpenSSLDistrustsha1SigVer [3]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Tested-by: kdevops <kdevops@lists.linux.dev> [0]
Link: https://github.com/linux-kdevops/linux-modules-kpd/actions/runs/11420092929/job/31775404330 [0]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/52ee32c0c92afc4d3263cea1f8a1cdc809728aff.1729088288.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module/Kconfig b/kernel/module/Kconfig index 7b329057997a..74fe976e3b01 100644 --- a/kernel/module/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/module/Kconfig @@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ comment "Do not forget to sign required modules with scripts/sign-file" choice prompt "Hash algorithm to sign modules" depends on MODULE_SIG || IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG + default MODULE_SIG_SHA512 help This determines which sort of hashing algorithm will be used during signature generation. This algorithm _must_ be built into the kernel |