From: waldi@debian.org   
      
   On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 06:32:35PM +0100, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:   
   > On Thu, Nov 13, 2025, at 9:10 PM, Thomas Weißschuh via rb-general wrote:   
   > > The current form of the patches can be found at [1], they are only slightly   
   > > adapted from the previous submission to LKML.   
      
   I'll try and take a look at those.   
      
   > > adapted from the previous submission to LKML. Remaining open topics before   
   the   
   > > next submission are proper IMA support and stripping of modules.   
      
   Yeah, stripping is a critical feature.  My take on that would be   
   something like that:   
   - During the build process, not only link .ko, but also directly create   
     the stripped version as maybe .ko.strip.   
   - INSTALL_MOD_STRIP will then only select which of the two files to   
     install, not actually call strip.   
      
   As additional thing: To mimic the current behaviour of the Debian   
   package, where we don't sign the unstripped files shipped for debugging   
   help, we only want the stripped versions show up as hashes.  But this we   
   could do on our own.  In the end this may reduce the attack surface due   
   to a lot more debugging info.   
      
   > > So if you are packaging Linux for your distribution, have looked at my   
   > > patches   
   > > and are eager to use them, please let me know. My plan is to talk with   
   > > the   
   > > upstream maintainers at the upcoming Linux Plumbers Conference on 11th   
   > > of December.   
   > Given the recent discussion on IRC about this, I figured this might be   
   > the easiest way to get the ball rolling on potentially getting this patch   
   > series endorsed/.. by the Debian kernel team - or at least getting a   
   > written expression of interest or further discussion :)   
      
   Thank you for bringing this up.  Yes, Debian is interested in this patch   
   set, so we can make our kernel builds reproducible again.   
      
   Bastian   
      
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