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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-02-10 09:32:30 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-02-10 09:32:30 -0800
commitb63c90720348578631cda74285958c3ad3169ce9 (patch)
treee79503d20dda1e113f6b369e46b4235a9b289694 /Documentation
parent958f7fb68c6be4e2d9dcb5bf31bfe746f6744aa3 (diff)
parent965e9a2cf23b066d8bdeb690dff9cd7089c5f667 (diff)
Merge tag 'keys-next-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull keys update from David Howells: "This adds support for ML-DSA signatures in X.509 certificates and PKCS#7/CMS messages, thereby allowing this algorithm to be used for signing modules, kexec'able binaries, wifi regulatory data, etc.. This requires OpenSSL-3.5 at a minimum and preferably OpenSSL-4 (so that it can avoid the use of CMS signedAttrs - but that version is not cut yet). certs/Kconfig does a check to hide the signing options if OpenSSL does not list the algorithm as being available" * tag 'keys-next-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: pkcs7: Change a pr_warn() to pr_warn_once() pkcs7: Allow authenticatedAttributes for ML-DSA modsign: Enable ML-DSA module signing pkcs7, x509: Add ML-DSA support pkcs7: Allow the signing algo to do whatever digestion it wants itself pkcs7, x509: Rename ->digest to ->m x509: Separately calculate sha256 for blacklist crypto: Add ML-DSA crypto_sig support
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst16
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst
index a8667a777490..7f2f127dc76f 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst
@@ -28,10 +28,12 @@ trusted userspace bits.
This facility uses X.509 ITU-T standard certificates to encode the public keys
involved. The signatures are not themselves encoded in any industrial standard
-type. The built-in facility currently only supports the RSA & NIST P-384 ECDSA
-public key signing standard (though it is pluggable and permits others to be
-used). The possible hash algorithms that can be used are SHA-2 and SHA-3 of
-sizes 256, 384, and 512 (the algorithm is selected by data in the signature).
+type. The built-in facility currently only supports the RSA, NIST P-384 ECDSA
+and NIST FIPS-204 ML-DSA public key signing standards (though it is pluggable
+and permits others to be used). For RSA and ECDSA, the possible hash
+algorithms that can be used are SHA-2 and SHA-3 of sizes 256, 384, and 512 (the
+algorithm is selected by data in the signature); ML-DSA does its own hashing,
+but is allowed to be used with a SHA512 hash for signed attributes.
==========================
@@ -146,9 +148,9 @@ into vmlinux) using parameters in the::
file (which is also generated if it does not already exist).
-One can select between RSA (``MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_RSA``) and ECDSA
-(``MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_ECDSA``) to generate either RSA 4k or NIST
-P-384 keypair.
+One can select between RSA (``MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_RSA``), ECDSA
+(``MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_ECDSA``) and ML-DSA (``MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_MLDSA_*``) to
+generate an RSA 4k, a NIST P-384 keypair or an ML-DSA 44, 65 or 87 keypair.
It is strongly recommended that you provide your own x509.genkey file.