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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel module signature now shown on modinfo
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 18:33:09
Message-Id: 2917991.7uevoeRHck@dell_xps
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel module signature now shown on modinfo by Dave Trombley
1 On Thursday, 12 April 2018 22:47:31 BST Dave Trombley wrote:
2 > This has been broken for almost two years; the signature format switched to
3 > PKCS#7 and modinfo doesn't support it. It's not as simple as just
4 > patching kmod because evidently the kernel change regressed or disrespected
5 > the relevent structure in the modules in a way that makes it impossible for
6 > kmod to even make sense of. Details here:
7 > https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/1054
8 >
9 > -David
10
11 Thanks David, I had come across an older bug somewhere, but there was no
12 detailed explanation.
13
14 --
15 Regards,
16 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel module signature now shown on modinfo Ben Mezger <su@××××.nl>