kernel February 2008

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kernel posttrans and preun hooks for other packages
by Matt Domsch 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433121 DKMS would like to have the opportunity to run it's auto-rebuilder/installer after a new kernel RPM has been installed, without having to wait for a system restart to run it. Likewise, when a kernel RPM is removed, it would like to be able to run to remove modules managed by it. Debian kernels intentionally run scripts located in /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ following new kernel package installation, /etc/kernel/prerm.d/ before kernel package removal. DKMS drops a script into these directories, to perform the appropriate actions. I want Fedora and RHEL kernels to do likewise. Patch attached. This patch implements the same interface as that used for Debian and Ubuntu kernels. The scripts are invoked with $1 = kernel version, and $2 = path to vmlinuz file. (DKMS doesn't need $2, but I'm keeping the interface the same to match so people can reuse their scriptlets.) -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux --- kernel.spec.orig 2008-02-15 21:06:33.000000000 -0600 +++ kernel.spec 2008-02-16 00:07:36.000000000 -0600 @@ -1610,11 +1610,35 @@ %{nil} # +# This macro defines a %%posttrans script for a kernel package. +# %%kernel_variant_posttrans [-v <subpackage>] [-s <s> -r <r>] <mkinitrd-args> +# More text can follow to go at the end of this variant's %%posttrans. +# +%define kernel_variant_posttrans(v:) \ +%{expand:%%posttrans %{?-v*}}\ +for d in /etc/kernel/postinst.d /etc/kernel/postinst.d/%{KVERREL}%{?-v*} ; do \ + if [ -d "${d}" ]; then \ + for f in $(ls ${d}/); do \ + [ -x "${d}/${f}" ] && "${d}/${f}" %{KVERREL}%{?-v*} /boot/vmlinuz-%{KVERREL}%{?-v*} \ + done \ + fi \ +done \ +exit 0\ +%{nil} + +# # This macro defines a %%preun script for a kernel package. # %%kernel_variant_preun <subpackage> # %define kernel_variant_preun() \ %{expand:%%preun %{?1}}\ +for d in /etc/kernel/prerm.d /etc/kernel/prerm.d/%{KVERREL}%{?1} ; do \ + if [ -d "${d}" ]; then \ + for f in $(ls ${d}/); do \ + [ -x "${d}/${f}" ] && "${d}/${f}" %{KVERREL}%{?1} /boot/vmlinuz-%{KVERREL}%{?1} \ + done \ + fi \ +done \ /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --rminitrd --rmmoddep --remove %{KVERREL}%{?1} || exit $?\ #if [ -x /sbin/weak-modules ]\ #then\ @@ -1624,12 +1648,15 @@ %kernel_variant_preun %kernel_variant_post -s kernel-smp -r kernel +%kernel_variant_posttrans %kernel_variant_preun smp %kernel_variant_post -v smp +%kernel_variant_posttrans -v smp %kernel_variant_preun PAE %kernel_variant_post -v PAE -s kernel-smp -r kernel-PAE +%kernel_variant_posttrans -v PAE %kernel_variant_preun debug %kernel_variant_post -v debug @@ -1644,6 +1671,8 @@ /sbin/ldconfig -X || exit $? fi +%kernel_variant_posttrans -v xen + ### ### file lists ###

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pls enable CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL=y
by Matt Domsch 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427311 The kernel does not use CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL=y, which prevents modules that don't use MODULE_VERSION() tags from getting a srcversion field in their modinfo. DKMS uses the srcversion field to determine if a module is exactly the same or not. It would benefit from having srcversion enabled for all modules. Ubuntu and openSUSE enable this option. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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enable CONFIG_SECURITY_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
by Eric Paris 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

Looks like rawhide kernels now have the CONFIG_SECURITY_MMAP_MIN_ADDR Kconfig option. In the past I tried to get this enabled by default using sysctl, a fedora kernel patch, and now I've got the Kconfig option in the upstream kernel. Lets set this equal to 65536. I've been running with this setting on my F8 laptop for some time and haven't seen any problems (although I do know that dosemu may be an issue for both of the people in the world who use it, there also may be some virt issues that I don't know about but which can be very quickly and easily sorted out) This sysctl hardens the kernel against null pointer bugs. Remember the priv escalation that was all the news last weekend? Not an issue with this enabled! http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/02/13/analyzing-the-l… -Eric

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[PATCH] lguest: fix undefined asm-offsets symbols
by Kyle McMartin 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

lguest uses asm-offsets to generate ... offsets, obviously, for use in the lguest switcher code. When the hypervisor code is built as a module though, the asm offsets it needs won't be generated since CONFIG_LGUEST will be undefined. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin(a)redhat.com> --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c index a33d530..44bafdd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ void foo(void) OFFSET(LGUEST_DATA_pgdir, lguest_data, pgdir); #endif -#ifdef CONFIG_LGUEST +#if defined(CONFIG_LGUEST) || defined(CONFIG_LGUEST_MODULE) BLANK(); OFFSET(LGUEST_PAGES_host_gdt_desc, lguest_pages, state.host_gdt_desc); OFFSET(LGUEST_PAGES_host_idt_desc, lguest_pages, state.host_idt_desc);

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vfat filesystem "fix" breaks rpm kernel install on ia64
by Doug Chapman 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

A recent kernel change has change the behavior of chmod on fat filesystems: commit 19c561a60ffe52df88dd63de0bff480ca094efe4 Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh(a)computergmbh.de> Date: Wed Feb 6 01:36:08 2008 -0800 fs/fat/: refine chmod checks After this change rpm installs of kernels fail on ia64. This is because efi systems use vfat for the boot filesystem. RPM installs fail because cpio gets a error on chmod (before this kernel change it would fail silently). My suggestion was to have anaconda set the "quiet" option (which makes chmod failures silent) for /boot/efi in fstab however they disagree (see BZ 435319). So, it seems like the options are: revert the patch (probably not a good idea) make "quiet" the default for fat filesystems, or, convince anaconda to add "quiet" to the fstab. Or, hopefully someone else has a better idea. thanks, - Doug

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kernel renames wlan to eth
by Adam Pribyl 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

I am just wondering what is going on with all this device names renaming. hostap always used to use wlanX device names.. but well in F8 this is some kind of different - at least on SMP system, the kernel asks for device wlan0 to be renamed to eth1. I thought it is udev magic, so I played with 70-persistent-net.rules, but it has no efect. Then I tried the udevmonitor and I see: UEVENT[1203878535.039740] add /module/hostap (module) UDEV [1203878535.042915] add /module/hostap (module) UEVENT[1203878535.057209] add /module/hostap_pci (module) UEVENT[1203878535.057845] add /bus/pci/drivers/hostap_pci (drivers) UEVENT[1203878535.058343] add /class/net/wifi1 (net) UDEV [1203878535.066578] add /bus/pci/drivers/hostap_pci (drivers) UDEV [1203878535.069191] add /module/hostap_pci (module) UDEV [1203878535.212557] add /class/net/wifi1 (net) UEVENT[1203878535.269178] add /class/net/wlan0 (net) UEVENT[1203878535.278823] move /class/net/eth1 (net) UDEV [1203878539.946245] add /class/net/eth1 (net) UDEV [1203878539.994233] move /class/net/eth1 (net) So this has nothing to do with udev, it's kernel who is asking for device to be renamed. But why? Some details: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=968699 Adam Pribyl

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Re: rpms/kernel/devel kernel.spec,1.445,1.446
by Dave Jones 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:08:19PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > Author: pjones > > Update of /cvs/extras/rpms/kernel/devel > In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv30850 > > Modified Files: > kernel.spec > Log Message: > * Thu Feb 21 2008 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> > - Require newer mkinitrd version. Bah. Given rawhide has been perpetually fscked for months on end, a lot of us have been running the F9 kernel on F8. This change breaks that unless we --nodeps. Any chance you can backport that mkinitrd to F8 ? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

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