Source: open-vm-tools
Version: 2:11.3.5-1ubuntu4
Severity: wishlist
Ubuntu has begun compressing kernel modules[1] which results in them
having the suffix "*.ko.zst". The vmxnet.hook for open-vm-tools detects
the module filename exactly as "pcnet32.ko" so is not able to detect the
compressed module, and thus will fail to load vmxnet as intended.
I believe this change would address the deficiency:
-if find "${DESTDIR}"/lib/modules -name pcnet32.ko >/dev/null; then
+if find "${DESTDIR}"/lib/modules -name pcnet32.ko -o -name pcnet32.ko.zst
>/dev/null; then
manual_add_modules vmxnet
+ apply_add_modules
fi
I considered wildcards but figure it's safer to be explicit.
I don't know whether Debian is considering support for compressed kernel
modules, but other distros[2,3] are in process of implementing it.
Thanks for considering,
Bryce
1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/2068026
2: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/12857
3:
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/ecr5hz/zstdcompressed_module_patch_for_the_linux_kernel/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers jammy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'jammy-updates'), (500, 'jammy-security'), (500, 'jammy'),
(100, 'jammy-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-100-generic (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_BAD_PAGE, TAINT_WARN,
TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
