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-			==============================
-			KERNEL MODULE SIGNING FACILITY
-			==============================
-
-CONTENTS
-
- - Overview.
- - Configuring module signing.
- - Generating signing keys.
- - Public keys in the kernel.
- - Manually signing modules.
- - Signed modules and stripping.
- - Loading signed modules.
- - Non-valid signatures and unsigned modules.
- - Administering/protecting the private key.
-
-
-========
-OVERVIEW
-========
-
-The kernel module signing facility cryptographically signs modules during
-installation and then checks the signature upon loading the module.  This
-allows increased kernel security by disallowing the loading of unsigned modules
-or modules signed with an invalid key.  Module signing increases security by
-making it harder to load a malicious module into the kernel.  The module
-signature checking is done by the kernel so that it is not necessary to have
-trusted userspace bits.
-
-This facility uses X.509 ITU-T standard certificates to encode the public keys
-involved.  The signatures are not themselves encoded in any industrial standard
-type.  The facility currently only supports the RSA public key encryption
-standard (though it is pluggable and permits others to be used).  The possible
-hash algorithms that can be used are SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and
-SHA-512 (the algorithm is selected by data in the signature).
-
-
-==========================
-CONFIGURING MODULE SIGNING
-==========================
-
-The module signing facility is enabled by going to the "Enable Loadable Module
-Support" section of the kernel configuration and turning on
-
-	CONFIG_MODULE_SIG	"Module signature verification"
-
-This has a number of options available:
-
- (1) "Require modules to be validly signed" (CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE)
-
-     This specifies how the kernel should deal with a module that has a
-     signature for which the key is not known or a module that is unsigned.
-
-     If this is off (ie. "permissive"), then modules for which the key is not
-     available and modules that are unsigned are permitted, but the kernel will
-     be marked as being tainted, and the concerned modules will be marked as
-     tainted, shown with the character 'E'.
-
-     If this is on (ie. "restrictive"), only modules that have a valid
-     signature that can be verified by a public key in the kernel's possession
-     will be loaded.  All other modules will generate an error.
-
-     Irrespective of the setting here, if the module has a signature block that
-     cannot be parsed, it will be rejected out of hand.
-
-
- (2) "Automatically sign all modules" (CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL)
-
-     If this is on then modules will be automatically signed during the
-     modules_install phase of a build.  If this is off, then the modules must
-     be signed manually using:
-
-	scripts/sign-file
-
-
- (3) "Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with?"
-
-     This presents a choice of which hash algorithm the installation phase will
-     sign the modules with:
-
-	CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA1		"Sign modules with SHA-1"
-	CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA224	"Sign modules with SHA-224"
-	CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA256	"Sign modules with SHA-256"
-	CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA384	"Sign modules with SHA-384"
-	CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA512	"Sign modules with SHA-512"
-
-     The algorithm selected here will also be built into the kernel (rather
-     than being a module) so that modules signed with that algorithm can have
-     their signatures checked without causing a dependency loop.
-
-
- (4) "File name or PKCS#11 URI of module signing key" (CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY)
-
-     Setting this option to something other than its default of
-     "certs/signing_key.pem" will disable the autogeneration of signing keys
-     and allow the kernel modules to be signed with a key of your choosing.
-     The string provided should identify a file containing both a private key
-     and its corresponding X.509 certificate in PEM form, or — on systems where
-     the OpenSSL ENGINE_pkcs11 is functional — a PKCS#11 URI as defined by
-     RFC7512. In the latter case, the PKCS#11 URI should reference both a
-     certificate and a private key.
-
-     If the PEM file containing the private key is encrypted, or if the
-     PKCS#11 token requries a PIN, this can be provided at build time by
-     means of the KBUILD_SIGN_PIN variable.
-
-
- (5) "Additional X.509 keys for default system keyring" (CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS)
-
-     This option can be set to the filename of a PEM-encoded file containing
-     additional certificates which will be included in the system keyring by
-     default.
-
-Note that enabling module signing adds a dependency on the OpenSSL devel
-packages to the kernel build processes for the tool that does the signing.
-
-
-=======================
-GENERATING SIGNING KEYS
-=======================
-
-Cryptographic keypairs are required to generate and check signatures.  A
-private key is used to generate a signature and the corresponding public key is
-used to check it.  The private key is only needed during the build, after which
-it can be deleted or stored securely.  The public key gets built into the
-kernel so that it can be used to check the signatures as the modules are
-loaded.
-
-Under normal conditions, when CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY is unchanged from its
-default, the kernel build will automatically generate a new keypair using
-openssl if one does not exist in the file:
-
-	certs/signing_key.pem
-
-during the building of vmlinux (the public part of the key needs to be built
-into vmlinux) using parameters in the:
-
-	certs/x509.genkey
-
-file (which is also generated if it does not already exist).
-
-It is strongly recommended that you provide your own x509.genkey file.
-
-Most notably, in the x509.genkey file, the req_distinguished_name section
-should be altered from the default:
-
-	[ req_distinguished_name ]
-	#O = Unspecified company
-	CN = Build time autogenerated kernel key
-	#emailAddress = unspecified.user@unspecified.company
-
-The generated RSA key size can also be set with:
-
-	[ req ]
-	default_bits = 4096
-
-
-It is also possible to manually generate the key private/public files using the
-x509.genkey key generation configuration file in the root node of the Linux
-kernel sources tree and the openssl command.  The following is an example to
-generate the public/private key files:
-
-	openssl req -new -nodes -utf8 -sha256 -days 36500 -batch -x509 \
-	   -config x509.genkey -outform PEM -out kernel_key.pem \
-	   -keyout kernel_key.pem
-
-The full pathname for the resulting kernel_key.pem file can then be specified
-in the CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY option, and the certificate and key therein will
-be used instead of an autogenerated keypair.
-
-
-=========================
-PUBLIC KEYS IN THE KERNEL
-=========================
-
-The kernel contains a ring of public keys that can be viewed by root.  They're
-in a keyring called ".system_keyring" that can be seen by:
-
-	[root@deneb ~]# cat /proc/keys
-	...
-	223c7853 I------     1 perm 1f030000     0     0 keyring   .system_keyring: 1
-	302d2d52 I------     1 perm 1f010000     0     0 asymmetri Fedora kernel signing key: d69a84e6bce3d216b979e9505b3e3ef9a7118079: X509.RSA a7118079 []
-	...
-
-Beyond the public key generated specifically for module signing, additional
-trusted certificates can be provided in a PEM-encoded file referenced by the
-CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS configuration option.
-
-Further, the architecture code may take public keys from a hardware store and
-add those in also (e.g. from the UEFI key database).
-
-Finally, it is possible to add additional public keys by doing:
-
-	keyctl padd asymmetric "" [.system_keyring-ID] <[key-file]
-
-e.g.:
-
-	keyctl padd asymmetric "" 0x223c7853 <my_public_key.x509
-
-Note, however, that the kernel will only permit keys to be added to
-.system_keyring _if_ the new key's X.509 wrapper is validly signed by a key
-that is already resident in the .system_keyring at the time the key was added.
-
-
-=========================
-MANUALLY SIGNING MODULES
-=========================
-
-To manually sign a module, use the scripts/sign-file tool available in
-the Linux kernel source tree.  The script requires 4 arguments:
-
-	1.  The hash algorithm (e.g., sha256)
-	2.  The private key filename or PKCS#11 URI
-	3.  The public key filename
-	4.  The kernel module to be signed
-
-The following is an example to sign a kernel module:
-
-	scripts/sign-file sha512 kernel-signkey.priv \
-		kernel-signkey.x509 module.ko
-
-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.
-
-
-============================
-SIGNED MODULES AND STRIPPING
-============================
-
-A signed module has a digital signature simply appended at the end.  The string
-"~Module signature appended~." at the end of the module's file confirms that a
-signature is present but it does not confirm that the signature is valid!
-
-Signed modules are BRITTLE as the signature is outside of the defined ELF
-container.  Thus they MAY NOT be stripped once the signature is computed and
-attached.  Note the entire module is the signed payload, including any and all
-debug information present at the time of signing.
-
-
-======================
-LOADING SIGNED MODULES
-======================
-
-Modules are loaded with insmod, modprobe, init_module() or finit_module(),
-exactly as for unsigned modules as no processing is done in userspace.  The
-signature checking is all done within the kernel.
-
-
-=========================================
-NON-VALID SIGNATURES AND UNSIGNED MODULES
-=========================================
-
-If CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is enabled or module.sig_enforce=1 is supplied on
-the kernel command line, the kernel will only load validly signed modules
-for which it has a public key.   Otherwise, it will also load modules that are
-unsigned.   Any module for which the kernel has a key, but which proves to have
-a signature mismatch will not be permitted to load.
-
-Any module that has an unparseable signature will be rejected.
-
-
-=========================================
-ADMINISTERING/PROTECTING THE PRIVATE KEY
-=========================================
-
-Since the private key is used to sign modules, viruses and malware could use
-the private key to sign modules and compromise the operating system.  The
-private key must be either destroyed or moved to a secure location and not kept
-in the root node of the kernel source tree.
-
-If you use the same private key to sign modules for multiple kernel
-configurations, you must ensure that the module version information is
-sufficient to prevent loading a module into a different kernel.  Either
-set CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y or ensure that each configuration has a different
-kernel release string by changing EXTRAVERSION or CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.