On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 09:02:32PM -0400, Kris Karas (Bug Reporting) wrote:
Lucas De Marchi wrote:
On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 11:08:29PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1050586
duplicate of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1050582 ?
Ah, that does seem the better bug report, as it triages it down to the
dictionary size.
Maybe that patch needs to propagate back to 6.5?
If you mean that modules_install doesn't pass the right parameters to
/bin/xz, then definitely. I've reported on bugzilla variously over
the years about things "fixed in Linus's tree" that never got queued
into Greg KH's tree.
well.. it's bug reports like this that trigger an "oops, we didn't think
it would affect a stable released kernel, we really should".
Perhaps kmod should be updated to only call finit_module() when the
kernel_version is >= known good, or when not using xz compression, and
use init_module() elsewhere?
checking by version is never ever correct as fixes are backported and
even features if you think about "corporate" distros. We do check by
"does the kernel support decompression and is it the same algo than what
we are expecting?" If the answer is no, then we fallback to
init_module(). But if the kernel tells us it supports something that it
doesn't really, then it's a kernel bug to be fixed, not to be
workarounded by kmod.
thanks
Lucas De Marchi
In any case, I didn't see the Debian bug report earlier. Using
Slackware here with custom-config mainline kernels.
Kris
