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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2015-07-20 21:16:27 +0100
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2015-08-07 16:26:13 +0100
commitbc1c373dd2a5113800360f7152be729c9da996cc (patch)
tree76250e463a070570a2dbd226c5fa8ee3d70de363 /include/crypto
parent4ebdb76f7da662346267384440492bb9d87c2aa3 (diff)
downloadlinux-bc1c373dd2a5113800360f7152be729c9da996cc.tar.gz
MODSIGN: Provide a utility to append a PKCS#7 signature to a module
Provide a utility that:

 (1) Digests a module using the specified hash algorithm (typically sha256).

     [The digest can be dumped into a file by passing the '-d' flag]

 (2) Generates a PKCS#7 message that:

     (a) Has detached data (ie. the module content).

     (b) Is signed with the specified private key.

     (c) Refers to the specified X.509 certificate.

     (d) Has an empty X.509 certificate list.

     [The PKCS#7 message can be dumped into a file by passing the '-p' flag]

 (3) Generates a signed module by concatenating the old module, the PKCS#7
     message, a descriptor and a magic string.  The descriptor contains the
     size of the PKCS#7 message and indicates the id_type as PKEY_ID_PKCS7.

 (4) Either writes the signed module to the specified destination or renames
     it over the source module.

This allows module signing to reuse the PKCS#7 handling code that was added
for PE file parsing for signed kexec.

Note that the utility is written in C and must be linked against the OpenSSL
crypto library.

Note further that I have temporarily dropped support for handling externally
created signatures until we can work out the best way to do those.  Hopefully,
whoever creates the signature can give me a PKCS#7 certificate.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/crypto')
-rw-r--r--include/crypto/public_key.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/crypto/public_key.h b/include/crypto/public_key.h
index b6f27a240856..fda097e079a4 100644
--- a/include/crypto/public_key.h
+++ b/include/crypto/public_key.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ extern const struct public_key_algorithm *pkey_algo[PKEY_ALGO__LAST];
 enum pkey_id_type {
 	PKEY_ID_PGP,		/* OpenPGP generated key ID */
 	PKEY_ID_X509,		/* X.509 arbitrary subjectKeyIdentifier */
+	PKEY_ID_PKCS7,		/* Signature in PKCS#7 message */
 	PKEY_ID_TYPE__LAST
 };