wireguard.ko on RHEL8

[Joe Doss]

Hey Steve,

On 4/24/22 1:16 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> Trying to install wireguard.ko on a RHEL8 vm (4.18.0-348.el8.x86_64)
> and I'm getting
> 
>     wireguard: module verification failed: signature and/or required key 
> missing - tainting kernel
> 
> The entire error:
> http://pastebin.test.redhat.com/1046896
> 
> is there anything at can be done about that?
> 
> I'm new to wireguard and I'm pretty impress...
> It came up in both Fedora rawhide and an
> unreleased verson of RHEL9...
> 
> We are trying to used it as our network in
> a community wide virtual NFS testing event
> called Bakeathon [1]
> 
> Again I'm new to wireguard but not to kernels ;-)
> So if you could throw something at me to
> help me get over this bum... It would be appreciated!
> 
> Note: I am not member of this list so please
> reply to be directly.

You have secure boot enabled, so you need to generate a MOK key pair, 
manually sign your wireguard.ko, and enroll your MOK cert or disable 
secure boot.

I use this script [1] to sign my NVIDIA drivers on my workstation after 
they are built via akmod.

Hope this helps!
Joe

[1]: https://gist.github.com/jdoss/495e814ef4ef599e480c31d4843eb6c0

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Joe Doss
joe at solidadmin.com