Re: [PATCH 1/4] modsign: Abort modules_install when signing fails

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Mon May 18 2015 - 21:30:39 EST


On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 17:52 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>

I assume the patch descriptions will be added before being upstreamed.

> ---
> scripts/Makefile.modinst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modinst b/scripts/Makefile.modinst
> index e48a4e9..07650ee 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.modinst
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.modinst
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ quiet_cmd_modules_install = INSTALL $@
> mkdir -p $(2) ; \
> cp $@ $(2) ; \
> $(mod_strip_cmd) $(2)/$(notdir $@) ; \
> - $(mod_sign_cmd) $(2)/$(notdir $@) $(patsubst %,|| true,$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)) ; \
> + $(mod_sign_cmd) $(2)/$(notdir $@) $(patsubst %,|| true,$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)) && \
> $(mod_compress_cmd) $(2)/$(notdir $@)

With this patch, as expected the modules_install aborted on failure. Is
there any way to capture the reason for the failure? In my case,
dropping the '-j <num>' option resolved the problem.

Mimi

> # Modules built outside the kernel source tree go into extra by default

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