XPost: linux.debian.devel.release, linux.debian.maint.boot

Hi

[not yet trimming the CC list to give a short update]

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 10:34:51PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:

Control: severity -1 serious

Hi Robert,

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 04:38:19PM +0100, Robert Shearman wrote:

Package: src:linux
Version: 6.1.137-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: rob@graphiant.com

rob@graph-dev-bookworm:~$ sudo modprobe watchdog
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'watchdog': Bad message

Using extract-module-sig.pl from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/scripts/extract-module-sig.pl
shows there is no signature present for the watchdog kernel object
file:

$ ~/Downloads/extract-module-sig.pl -s /lib/modules/6.1.0-35-amd64/kernel/drivers/watchdog/watchdog.ko
Read 91616 bytes from module file
Found magic number at 91616
Found PKCS#7/CMS encapsulation

Compared to 6.1.0-34-amd64 version:

$ ~/Downloads/extract-module-sig.pl -s /lib/modules/6.1.0-34-amd64/kernel/drivers/watchdog/watchdog.ko
Read 92027 bytes from module file
Found magic number at 92027
Found PKCS#7/CMS encapsulation
Found 411 bytes of signature [3082019706092a864886f70d010702a0]
...

So indeed there was likely a temporary problem when doing the signing
of the modules for linux-signed-amd64. There is the watchdog module
and w83977f_wdt one which have zero size signature:

./linux-signed-amd64-6.1.137+1/debian/signatures/linux-image-6.1.0-35-amd64-unsigned/lib/modules/6.1.0-35-amd64/kernel/drivers/watchdog/watchdog.ko.sig
./linux-signed-amd64-6.1.137+1/debian/signatures/linux-image-6.1.0-35-amd64-unsigned/lib/modules/6.1.0-35-amd64/kernel/drivers/watchdog/w83977f_wdt.ko.sig

I checked as well linux-signed-i386 and linux-signed-arm64 but there I
found none with a problem.

After a short double-checking with Ansgar, the check might be
included in https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/code-signing/-/blob/master/secure-boot-code-sign.py?ref_type=heads#L180
in the sign_kmod function. And similarly in sign_efi function as well
in https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/code-signing/-/blob/master/secure-boot-code-sign.py?ref_type=heads#L200

Regards,
Salvatore

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Hi,

On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 09:13:48PM +0300, Romualdas Mincevičius wrote:

Hello.

Reporting that this bug affects my bookworm amd64 system after the latest 12.11 point release. The only difference is I am trying to load w83627hf_wdt module. The error message is the same:

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'w83627hf_wdt': Bad message

Yes this is explained in the known issues of todays 12.11
announcement:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2025/msg00002.html

it will be resolved with a linux which we can expect soon due to other
reasons.

Regards,
Salvatore

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