signing.bbclass: add support for OpenSSL PKCS#11 provider

OpenSSL 4.0 will drop support for engines and use providers instead.

To access SoftHSM and other PKCS#11 modules via the provider API, we
rely on https://github.com/latchset/pkcs11-provider, which is already
available as via pkcs11-provider recipe.

We enable this provider by using a specific OpenSSL config when signing.
This means that recipes inheriting this class can decide whether they
want to use the engine or provider to access the key.

SoftHSM seems to produce broken keys when calling the C_CopyObject, so
disable caching in the provider for now.

Signed-off-by: Jan Luebbe <jlu@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Pflug <f.pflug@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
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Fabian Pflug 2026-03-04 16:31:42 +01:00 committed by Khem Raj
parent 40a1825c95
commit f75a2ab194
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@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
SIGNING_PKCS11_URI ?= ""
SIGNING_PKCS11_MODULE ?= ""
DEPENDS += "softhsm-native libp11-native opensc-native openssl-native extract-cert-native"
DEPENDS += "softhsm-native pkcs11-provider-native libp11-native opensc-native openssl-native extract-cert-native"
def signing_class_prepare(d):
import os.path
@ -338,16 +338,10 @@ signing_import_install() {
signing_prepare() {
export OPENSSL_MODULES="${STAGING_LIBDIR_NATIVE}/ossl-modules"
export OPENSSL_ENGINES="${STAGING_LIBDIR_NATIVE}/engines-3"
export OPENSSL_CONF="${STAGING_LIBDIR_NATIVE}/ssl-3/openssl.cnf"
export OPENSSL_CONF="${STAGING_LIBDIR_NATIVE}/openssl-provider-signing.cnf"
export SSL_CERT_DIR="${STAGING_LIBDIR_NATIVE}/ssl-3/certs"
export SSL_CERT_FILE="${STAGING_LIBDIR_NATIVE}/ssl-3/cert.pem"
if [ -f ${OPENSSL_CONF} ]; then
echo "Using '${OPENSSL_CONF}' for OpenSSL configuration"
else
echo "Missing 'openssl.cnf' at '${STAGING_ETCDIR_NATIVE}/ssl'"
return 1
fi
if [ -d ${OPENSSL_MODULES} ]; then
echo "Using '${OPENSSL_MODULES}' for OpenSSL run-time modules"
else
@ -367,6 +361,26 @@ signing_prepare() {
echo "directories.tokendir = $SOFTHSM2_DIR" > "$SOFTHSM2_CONF"
echo "objectstore.backend = db" >> "$SOFTHSM2_CONF"
cat > "${OPENSSL_CONF}" <<EOF
openssl_conf = openssl_init
[openssl_init]
providers = provider_sect
[provider_sect]
default = default_sect
pkcs11 = pkcs11_sect
[default_sect]
activate = 1
[pkcs11_sect]
pkcs11-module-quirks = no-operation-state no-deinit
pkcs11-module-cache-keys = false
pkcs11-module-encode-provider-uri-to-pem = true
activate = 1
EOF
for env in $(ls "${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}/var/lib/meta-signing.env.d"); do
. "${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}/var/lib/meta-signing.env.d/$env"
done
@ -378,6 +392,8 @@ signing_use_role() {
local role="${1}"
export PKCS11_MODULE_PATH="$(signing_get_module $role)"
export PKCS11_PROVIDER_MODULE="$PKCS11_MODULE_PATH"
# export PKCS11_PROVIDER_DEBUG="file:/dev/stderr"
export PKCS11_URI="$(signing_get_uri $role)"
if [ -z "$PKCS11_MODULE_PATH" ]; then