4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 934193a654c1f4d0643ddbf4b2529b508cae926e upstream.
Verify that 'depmod' ($DEPMOD) is installed.
This is a partial revert of commit 620c231c7a7f
("kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools").
Also update Documentation/process/changes.rst to refer to
kmod instead of module-init-tools.
Fixes kernel bugzilla #198965:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198965
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # any kernel since 2012
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/process/changes.rst | 19 +++++++------------
scripts/depmod.sh | 8 +++++++-
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ binutils 2.20
flex 2.5.35 flex --version
bison 2.0 bison --version
util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version
-module-init-tools 0.9.10 depmod -V
+kmod 13 depmod -V
e2fsprogs 1.41.4 e2fsck -V
jfsutils 1.1.3 fsck.jfs -V
reiserfsprogs 3.6.3 reiserfsck -V
@@ -156,12 +156,6 @@ is not build with ``CONFIG_KALLSYMS`` an
reproduce the Oops with that option, then you can still decode that Oops
with ksymoops.
-Module-Init-Tools
------------------
-
-A new module loader is now in the kernel that requires ``module-init-tools``
-to use. It is backward compatible with the 2.4.x series kernels.
-
Mkinitrd
--------
@@ -371,16 +365,17 @@ Util-linux
- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>
+Kmod
+----
+
+- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/>
+- <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git>
+
Ksymoops
--------
- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/v2.4/>
-Module-Init-Tools
------------------
-
-- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/>
-
Mkinitrd
--------
--- a/scripts/depmod.sh
+++ b/scripts/depmod.sh
@@ -10,10 +10,16 @@ fi
DEPMOD=$1
KERNELRELEASE=$2
-if ! test -r System.map -a -x "$DEPMOD"; then
+if ! test -r System.map ; then
exit 0
fi
+if [ -z $(command -v $DEPMOD) ]; then
+ echo "'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please install it." >&2
+ echo "This is probably in the kmod package." >&2
+ exit 1
+fi
+
# older versions of depmod require the version string to start with three
# numbers, so we cheat with a symlink here
depmod_hack_needed=true
