MODSIGN: Move the magic string to the end of a module and eliminate the search

Emit the magic string that indicates a module has a signature after the
signature data instead of before it.  This allows module_sig_check() to
be made simpler and faster by the elimination of the search for the
magic string.  Instead we just need to do a single memcmp().

This works because at the end of the signature data there is the
fixed-length signature information block.  This block then falls
immediately prior to the magic number.

From the contents of the information block, it is trivial to calculate
the size of the signature data and thus the size of the actual module
data.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/sign-file b/scripts/sign-file
index d37d130..87ca59d 100755
--- a/scripts/sign-file
+++ b/scripts/sign-file
@@ -403,11 +403,11 @@ my $info = pack("CCCCCxxxN",
 
 if ($verbose) {
     print "Size of unsigned module: ", length($unsigned_module), "\n";
-    print "Size of magic number   : ", length($magic_number), "\n";
     print "Size of signer's name  : ", length($signers_name), "\n";
     print "Size of key identifier : ", length($key_identifier), "\n";
     print "Size of signature      : ", length($signature), "\n";
     print "Size of informaton     : ", length($info), "\n";
+    print "Size of magic number   : ", length($magic_number), "\n";
     print "Signer's name          : '", $signers_name, "'\n";
     print "Digest                 : $dgst\n";
 }
@@ -416,11 +416,11 @@ open(FD, ">$dest") || die $dest;
 binmode FD;
 print FD
     $unsigned_module,
-    $magic_number,
     $signers_name,
     $key_identifier,
     $signature,
-    $info
+    $info,
+    $magic_number
     ;
 close FD || die $dest;