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Thorsten Leemhuis f3b93547b9 module: sign with sha512 instead of sha1 by default
Switch away from using sha1 for module signing by default and use the
more modern sha512 instead, which is what among others Arch, Fedora,
RHEL, and Ubuntu are currently using for their kernels.

Sha1 has not been considered secure against well-funded opponents since
2005[1]; since 2011 the NIST and other organizations furthermore
recommended its replacement[2]. This is why OpenSSL on RHEL9, Fedora
Linux 41+[3], and likely some other current and future distributions
reject the creation of sha1 signatures, which leads to a build error of
allmodconfig configurations:

  80A20474797F0000:error:03000098:digital envelope routines:do_sigver_init:invalid digest:crypto/evp/m_sigver.c:342:
  make[4]: *** [.../certs/Makefile:53: certs/signing_key.pem] Error 1
  make[4]: *** Deleting file 'certs/signing_key.pem'
  make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  make[3]: *** [.../scripts/Makefile.build:478: certs] Error 2
  make[2]: *** [.../Makefile:1936: .] Error 2
  make[1]: *** [.../Makefile:224: __sub-make] Error 2
  make[1]: Leaving directory '...'
  make: *** [Makefile:224: __sub-make] Error 2

This change makes allmodconfig work again and sets a default that is
more appropriate for current and future users, too.

Link: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/cryptanalysis_o.html [1]
Link: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/hash-functions [2]
Link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OpenSSLDistrustsha1SigVer [3]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Tested-by: kdevops <kdevops@lists.linux.dev> [0]
Link: https://github.com/linux-kdevops/linux-modules-kpd/actions/runs/11420092929/job/31775404330 [0]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/52ee32c0c92afc4d3263cea1f8a1cdc809728aff.1729088288.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
2025-01-26 13:05:24 +01:00
arch - Mark serialize() noinstr so that it can be used from instrumentation-free 2025-01-19 09:33:40 -08:00
block block, bfq: fix waker_bfqq UAF after bfq_split_bfqq() 2025-01-09 06:52:46 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: rsassa-pkcs1 - Copy source data for SG list 2024-12-10 13:34:05 +08:00
Documentation Tracing fixes for 6.13: 2025-01-16 16:19:05 -08:00
drivers - Fix an OF node leak in irqchip init's error handling path 2025-01-19 09:04:33 -08:00
fs 7 singleton hotfixes. 6 are MM. 2 are cc:stable and the remainder 2025-01-16 21:24:34 -08:00
include module: Constify 'struct module_attribute' 2025-01-26 13:05:23 +01:00
init - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko 2024-11-25 16:09:48 -08:00
io_uring io_uring-6.13-20250116 2025-01-16 17:02:28 -08:00
ipc - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko 2024-11-25 16:09:48 -08:00
kernel module: sign with sha512 instead of sha1 by default 2025-01-26 13:05:24 +01:00
lib alloc_tag: skip pgalloc_tag_swap if profiling is disabled 2025-01-15 21:15:43 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm: zswap: move allocations during CPU init outside the lock 2025-01-15 21:15:43 -08:00
net netdev: avoid CFI problems with sock priv helpers 2025-01-16 13:15:40 +01:00
rust workqueue: Fixes for v6.13-rc5 2025-01-03 15:03:56 -08:00
samples BPF fixes: 2024-12-06 15:07:48 -08:00
scripts scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: fix decoding of lines with an additional info 2025-01-12 19:03:34 -08:00
security selinux/stable-6.13 PR 20250107 2025-01-07 14:49:48 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 6.13-final 2025-01-14 09:54:57 -08:00
tools Current release - regressions: 2025-01-16 09:09:44 -08:00
usr kbuild: Drop support for include/asm-<arch> in headers_check.pl 2024-12-21 11:43:17 +09:00
virt VFIO updates for v6.13 2024-11-27 12:57:03 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: enable Clippy's check-private-items 2024-10-07 21:39:57 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v6.13 2024-11-30 13:41:50 -08:00
.mailmap 7 singleton hotfixes. 6 are MM. 2 are cc:stable and the remainder 2025-01-16 21:24:34 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: remove Andy Gospodarek from bonding 2025-01-09 08:30:01 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS sound fixes for 6.13-final 2025-01-14 09:54:57 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.13 2025-01-19 15:51:45 -08:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.