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Make DKMS sign kernel modules on installation, with full script support and somewhat distro independent

On systems with UEFI Secure Boot enabled, recent Linux kernels will only load signed modules, so it's about time DKMS grew the capability to sign modules it's building.

These scripts are extended and scriptified variants of https://computerlinguist.org/make-dkms-sign-kernel-modules-for-secure-boot-on-ubuntu-1604.html and https://askubuntu.com/questions/760671/could-not-load-vboxdrv-after-upgrade-to-ubuntu-16-04-and-i-want-to-keep-secur/768310#768310 and add some error checking, a passphrase around your signing key, and support for compressed modules.

dkms-sign-module is a wrapper for the more generic sign-modules which can also be used outside of DKMS.

Installation

  1. Create a directory under /root, say /root/module-signing, put the three scripts below in there and make them executable: chmod u+x one-time-setup sign-modules dkms-sign-module
  2. Run one-time-setup
  3. Reboot your computer to deploy the MOK
  4. For each module you will want to sign via DKMS, create a file /etc/dkms/<module_name>.conf with the following content:
    POST_BUILD=../../../../../../root/module-signing/dkms-sign-module
    
    The awkward relative pathname is important since DKMS prepends its own path to it, so an absolute path will not work.
#!/bin/bash
export PROMPT="Enter Machine Owner Key (MOK) passphrase to sign $module $module_version: "
export KERNELVER=$kernelver
$(dirname $0)/sign-modules ../$kernelver/$arch/module/*.ko*
#!/bin/bash
mydir=$(dirname $0)
echo "I am about to generate the Machine Owner Key (MOK)."
echo "The passphrase you enter for this key will be required every time you want to sign a module."
read -p "Please press Return to go on..."
openssl req -new -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout $mydir/MOK.priv -outform DER -out $mydir/MOK.der -days 36500 -subj "/CN=$(hostname) module signing key/" || exit 1
echo
echo "Now I will import the generated key into the secure keystore."
echo "The passphrase you will enter is only required once, during the following reboot."
read -p "Please press Return to go on..."
mokutil --import $mydir/MOK.der || exit 1
echo
echo "Please reboot your computer now to complete the enrollment of your new MOK."
echo "This is going to look somewhat similar to https://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/SecureBoot"
#!/bin/bash
if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
echo "Usage: $0 module [module...]"
exit 1
fi
mydir=$(dirname $0)
PROMPT="${PROMPT:-Enter Machine Owner Key (MOK) passphrase: }"
KERNELVER=${KERNELVER:-$(uname -r)}
read_passphrase() {
# We write to /dev/tty to get around DKMS' redirection to /dev/null if it's being run with -q (e.g. during rpm installs)
echo -n "$PROMPT" > /dev/tty
read -s KBUILD_SIGN_PIN < /dev/tty
export KBUILD_SIGN_PIN
echo > /dev/tty
openssl rsa -check -noout -passin env:KBUILD_SIGN_PIN -in $mydir/MOK.priv > /dev/null 2>&1
}
do_sign() {
/lib/modules/$KERNELVER/build/scripts/sign-file sha256 $mydir/MOK.priv $mydir/MOK.der "$1"
}
while ! read_passphrase; do echo "Wrong passphrase, please try again."; done
for module in $@; do
echo "Signing module: $module"
module_basename=${module:0:-3}
module_suffix=${module: -3}
if [[ "$module_suffix" == ".xz" ]]; then
unxz $module
do_sign $module_basename
xz -f $module_basename
elif [[ "$module_suffix" == ".gz" ]]; then
gunzip $module
do_sign $module_basename
gzip -9f $module_basename
else
do_sign $module
fi
done
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dominikegert commented Jul 10, 2024

Addendum to make it work with .zst compressed modules as well.

Here the complete loop from the third file, but you only need to add the first if-statement

for module in $@; do
echo "Signing module: $module"
module_basename=${module:0:-3}
module_suffix=${module: -3}
module_basename2=${module:0:-4}
module_suffix2=${module: -4}

if [[ "$module_suffix2" == ".zst" ]]; then
  zstd -q -f -d $module
  do_sign $module_basename2
  zstd -q -19 --check -f -o $module $module_basename2.
elif [[ "$module_suffix" == ".xz" ]]; then
  unxz $module
  do_sign $module_basename
  xz -f $module_basename
elif [[ "$module_suffix" == ".gz" ]]; then
  gunzip $module
  do_sign $module_basename
  gzip -9f $module_basename
else
  do_sign $module
fi

done

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