Hi, On 4/16/21 1:25 PM, Nayna wrote: > > On 4/16/21 2:53 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On 4/16/21 4:36 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Changes since 20210415: >>> >> I noticed this build error message (on an i386 build): >> >> ../certs/Makefile:52: *** Could not determine digest type to use from kernel config. Stop. >> >> and when I was checking on why it happened, I noticed that >> # CONFIG_MODULES is not set >> >> and hence >> ifndef CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_HASH >> $(error Could not determine digest type to use from kernel config) >> endif >> >> CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_HASH is not set/enabled/defined. >> >> However, the .config file does have >> CONFIG_IMA_APPRAISE=y >> # CONFIG_IMA_ARCH_POLICY is not set >> # CONFIG_IMA_APPRAISE_BUILD_POLICY is not set >> CONFIG_IMA_APPRAISE_BOOTPARAM=y >> CONFIG_IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG=y >> >> as well as >> CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORMAT=y >> >> due to a "select" by IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG. >> (although I see that MODULE_SIG_FORMAT does not depend on MODULES) >> >> >> Is there anything that you can do (or recommend) to prevent >> the build error? >> >> >> >> BTW, it looks like this: >> config IMA_APPRAISE_REQUIRE_MODULE_SIGS >> bool "Appraise kernel modules signatures" >> depends on IMA_APPRAISE_BUILD_POLICY >> >> could also depend on MODULES. >> >> >> >> Full i386 randconfig file is attached. > > > With the new patchset "ima: kernel build support for loading the kernel module signing key", there shouldn't be a difference when generating the config file between MODULE_SIG and IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG. Both prompt for the hash algorithm. That patchset appears to be included in today's linux-next 2021-04-16. > Can you please explain how you generate randconfig? Do you use make xconfig? with the 'make randconfig' command. -- ~Randy