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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODSIGN: Change default key details [ver #2]
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah.  I've had other reports, but I can't see anything obvious.  I have a
>> suspicion there may be something not declared quite right in the makefile - or
>> even a race in make -jN, but I don't know how to reproduce it.
>
> Ah OK, (un)nice to read.

Yeah. I've gotten "X.509 certificate list changed" messages
occasionally, which makes no sense considering that I never have any
keys except for the default signing key.

So there is something odd foinf on with "kernel/.x509.list". The rules
to generate it aren't really _rules_. It's black magic. Actually, it's
*generated* with a rule, but then it has that magical "if the contents
don't match" thing that is _not_ a real make rule.

It would be lovely to replace that with a real "if_changed" rule,
because I do think the magic hackery is what the confuses make. Maybe
some concurrent build reads the file - to check if it's the same - in
one make instance while it's being generated in another. Something. [
Wild handwaving going on ].

                    Linus