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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2015-07-20 21:16:28 +0100
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2015-08-07 16:26:14 +0100
commitaf1eb2913275c3ab1598b0c24c893499092df08a (patch)
treee176ad5867a4d4ca3db433e62fb362e5fff00be8 /Documentation/module-signing.txt
parentcaf6fe91ddf62a96401e21e9b7a07227440f4185 (diff)
modsign: Allow password to be specified for signing key
We don't want this in the Kconfig since it might then get exposed in /proc/config.gz. So make it a parameter to Kbuild instead. This also means we don't have to jump through hoops to strip quotes from it, as we would if it was a config option. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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@@ -194,6 +194,9 @@ The hash algorithm used does not have to match the one configured, but if it
doesn't, you should make sure that hash algorithm is either built into the
kernel or can be loaded without requiring itself.
+If the private key requires a passphrase or PIN, it can be provided in the
+$KBUILD_SIGN_PIN environment variable.
+
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SIGNED MODULES AND STRIPPING