[PATCH 1/6] binman: openssl: refactor creation of Distinguished Name section from dict

Rasmus Villemoes ravi at prevas.dk
Fri Jul 10 14:36:13 CEST 2026


Instead of manually expanding the req_dist_name_dict, create a helper
function for creating a config section from any dict. That will also
automatically allow other fields to be emitted.

Eventually, we could allow the values to not necesssarily be a single
string, but a list of strings, e.g. "OU" -> ["First OU", "Secound OU"],
and encode that in the config file using

  1.OU = First OU
  2.OU = Second OU

as documented in 'man 5 config'.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <ravi at prevas.dk>
---
 tools/binman/btool/openssl.py | 44 +++++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/binman/btool/openssl.py b/tools/binman/btool/openssl.py
index b26f087c447..370760ccaa5 100644
--- a/tools/binman/btool/openssl.py
+++ b/tools/binman/btool/openssl.py
@@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ class Bintoolopenssl(bintool.Bintool):
             name, 'openssl cryptography toolkit',
             version_regex=r'OpenSSL (.*) \(', version_args='version')
 
+    def dict_to_config_section(self, section_name, d):
+        if not d:
+            return ''
+        s = f'[ {section_name} ]\n'
+        for field, value in d.items():
+            s += f'{field:22s} = {value}\n'
+        return s
+
     def x509_cert(self, cert_fname, input_fname, key_fname, cn, revision,
                   config_fname):
         """Create a certificate
@@ -92,8 +100,7 @@ imageSize              = INTEGER:{len(indata)}
             sw_rev (int): Software revision
             config_fname (str): Filename to write fconfig into
             req_dist_name_dict (dict): Dictionary containing key-value pairs of
-            req_distinguished_name section extensions, must contain extensions for
-            C, ST, L, O, OU, CN and emailAddress
+            req_distinguished_name section extensions
             firewall_cert_data (dict):
               - auth_in_place (int): The Priv ID for copying as the
                 specific host in firewall protected region
@@ -114,14 +121,7 @@ x509_extensions        = v3_ca
 prompt                 = no
 dirstring_type         = nobmp
 
-[ req_distinguished_name ]
-C                      = {req_dist_name_dict['C']}
-ST                     = {req_dist_name_dict['ST']}
-L                      = {req_dist_name_dict['L']}
-O                      = {req_dist_name_dict['O']}
-OU                     = {req_dist_name_dict['OU']}
-CN                     = {req_dist_name_dict['CN']}
-emailAddress           = {req_dist_name_dict['emailAddress']}
+{self.dict_to_config_section('req_distinguished_name', req_dist_name_dict)}
 
 [ v3_ca ]
 basicConstraints       = CA:true
@@ -163,8 +163,7 @@ numFirewallRegions = INTEGER:{firewall_cert_data['num_firewalls']}
             sw_rev (int): Software revision
             config_fname (str): Filename to write fconfig into
             req_dist_name_dict (dict): Dictionary containing key-value pairs of
-            req_distinguished_name section extensions, must contain extensions for
-            C, ST, L, O, OU, CN and emailAddress
+            req_distinguished_name section extensions
             cert_type (int): Certification type
             bootcore (int): Booting core
             bootcore_opts(int): Booting core option, lockstep (0) or split (2) mode
@@ -184,14 +183,7 @@ numFirewallRegions = INTEGER:{firewall_cert_data['num_firewalls']}
  prompt                 = no
  dirstring_type         = nobmp
 
- [ req_distinguished_name ]
-C                      = {req_dist_name_dict['C']}
-ST                     = {req_dist_name_dict['ST']}
-L                      = {req_dist_name_dict['L']}
-O                      = {req_dist_name_dict['O']}
-OU                     = {req_dist_name_dict['OU']}
-CN                     = {req_dist_name_dict['CN']}
-emailAddress           = {req_dist_name_dict['emailAddress']}
+{self.dict_to_config_section('req_distinguished_name', req_dist_name_dict)}
 
  [ v3_ca ]
  basicConstraints = CA:true
@@ -252,8 +244,7 @@ emailAddress           = {req_dist_name_dict['emailAddress']}
             sw_rev (int): Software revision
             config_fname (str): Filename to write fconfig into
             req_dist_name_dict (dict): Dictionary containing key-value pairs of
-            req_distinguished_name section extensions, must contain extensions for
-            C, ST, L, O, OU, CN and emailAddress
+            req_distinguished_name section extensions
             cert_type (int): Certification type
             bootcore (int): Booting core
             load_addr (int): Load address of image
@@ -274,14 +265,7 @@ x509_extensions        = v3_ca
 prompt                 = no
 dirstring_type         = nobmp
 
-[ req_distinguished_name ]
-C                      = {req_dist_name_dict['C']}
-ST                     = {req_dist_name_dict['ST']}
-L                      = {req_dist_name_dict['L']}
-O                      = {req_dist_name_dict['O']}
-OU                     = {req_dist_name_dict['OU']}
-CN                     = {req_dist_name_dict['CN']}
-emailAddress           = {req_dist_name_dict['emailAddress']}
+{self.dict_to_config_section('req_distinguished_name', req_dist_name_dict)}
 
 [ v3_ca ]
 basicConstraints = CA:true
-- 
2.55.0



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