Documentation/Changes: Now need OpenSSL devel packages for module signing (3f1d44ae) · Commits · 戴 / test

The module signing script (sign-file) used to be a wrapper around the openssl program. It has now been replaced by a C program that uses the crypto library from the OpenSSL package meaning that the OpenSSL devel packages are necessary to provide the devel library link and the header files. This would be openssl-devel on Fedora and libssl-dev on Debian. Reported-by:

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by:

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:

James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>

Documentation/Changes

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		@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ o udev 081 # udevd --version
		o grub 0.93 # grub --version \|\| grub-install --version
		o mcelog 0.6 # mcelog --version
		o iptables 1.4.2 # iptables -V
		o openssl & libcrypto 1.0.1k # openssl version


		Kernel compilation
		@@ -79,6 +80,17 @@ BC
		You will need bc to build kernels 3.10 and higher


		OpenSSL
		-------

		Module signing and external certificate handling use the OpenSSL program and
		crypto library to do key creation and signature generation.

		You will need openssl to build kernels 3.7 and higher if module signing is
		enabled. You will also need openssl development packages to build kernels 4.3
		and higher.


		System utilities
		================

		@@ -295,6 +307,10 @@ Binutils
		--------
		o <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/>

		OpenSSL
		-------
		o <https://www.openssl.org/>

		System utilities
		****************

		@@ -392,4 +408,3 @@ o <http://oprofile.sf.net/download/>
		NFS-Utils
		---------
		o <http://nfs.sourceforge.net/>

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