Re: [RFC] modpost: add option to allow external modules to avoid taint

2011-12-18 Thread Rusty Russell
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:39:49 +, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Non-text part: multipart/signed On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 14:26 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:20:03 -0500, John W. Linville linvi...@tuxdriver.com wrote: We really want to indicate out-of-support

Re: [RFC] modpost: add option to allow external modules to avoid taint

2011-12-15 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:20:03 -0500, John W. Linville linvi...@tuxdriver.com wrote: In some cases, it might be desirable to package a module from an external source tree alongside the base kernel. In those cases, it might also be desirable to not have those modules tainting the kernel. This

Re: [PATCH] lockdep, bug: Exclude TAINT_OOT_MODULE from disabling lock debugging

2011-12-08 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:30:58 +, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: We do want to allow lock debugging for GPL-compatible modules that are not (yet) built in-tree. This was disabled as a side-effect of commit 2449b8ba0745327c5fa49a8d9acffe03b2eded69 ('module,bug: Add

Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockdep,rtmutex,bug: Show taint flags on error

2011-10-31 Thread Rusty Russell
lockdep and rtmutex-debug error messages. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Acked-by: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree

2011-10-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:55:28 -0400, Dave Jones da...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:41:37AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: I think we need a taint_string() function, and instead of lockdep disabling itself it should note the taint string in its reports. Similarly

Re: [PATCH 2/2] module: Re-enable dynamic debugging for GPL-compatible OOT modules

2011-10-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:38:14 +0100, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Dynamic debugging was enabled for GPL-compatible out-of-tree modules until my addition of TAINT_OOT_MODULE. It should continue to be enabled now. Please just remove the test entirely. AFAICT there's nothing unique

Re: [PATCH 2/2] module: Re-enable dynamic debugging for GPL-compatible OOT modules

2011-10-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:44:17 +, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Non-text part: multipart/signed On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 12:29 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:38:14 +0100, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Dynamic debugging was enabled for GPL

Re: [PATCH] module: Enable dynamic debugging regardless of taint

2011-10-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:59:33 +, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Dynamic debugging is currently disabled for tainted modules, except for TAINT_CRAP. This prevents use of dynamic debugging for out-of-tree modules now that they are also tainted. This condition was apparently

Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree

2011-10-26 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:08:34 -0400, Nick Bowler nbow...@elliptictech.com wrote: On 2011-10-25 22:54 +0200, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 04:17:24PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:04:55PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:51:42PM

Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree

2011-10-25 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:17:24 -0400, Dave Jones da...@redhat.com wrote: commit 7816c45bf13255157c00fb8aca86cb64d825e878 Author: Roland Vossen rvos...@broadcom.com Date: Thu Apr 7 11:20:58 2011 +0200 modules: Enabled dynamic debugging for staging modules ... Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree

2011-10-24 Thread Rusty Russell
consider staging modules to be suspect, and this should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very little review. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Reviewed-by: Dave Jones da...@redhat.com Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gre...@suse.de Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell ru

Bug#333052: 2.6.14, udev: unknown symbols for ehci_hcd

2005-11-05 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 19:48 +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote: On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: I've got these messages several times on the experimental SUSE too, but can't reproduce it so far, even without Rusty's patch to modprobe they have disappeared. See here for

Bug#333052: Bug#333522: possible problem cause: wait4(-1)

2005-10-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 19:53 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Oct 29, Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please send complete log. Here it is. I can reproduce the bug even with a script like: while read m; do /sbin/modprobe.real $m done LIST (Each command was logged

Bug#333052: Bug#333522: possible problem cause: wait4(-1)

2005-10-28 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 10:10 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: And then it fails for ehci-hcd too (which is not loaded at all). Rusty, do you have other ideas for debugging? I have reread the bug reports, and meditated on this issue some more. This is a possibility I was aware of when I changed to code

Bug#333052: Bug#333522: possible problem cause: wait4(-1)

2005-10-28 Thread Rusty Russell
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 15:08 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Oct 28, Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latter is the simplest option. Please try this patch (it will be in the next release, too). If it seems to work, please ack. No luck. Please send complete log. I might need

Bug#333522: possible problem cause: wait4(-1)

2005-10-18 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 15:38 +0200, Martin Wilck wrote: Rusty Russell wrote: Martin Wilck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0. the module loading tool runs during boot with PID 1. I do not understand how this can happen. request_module() cannot occur until usermodehelper_init() is called

Bug#333522: possible problem cause: wait4(-1)

2005-10-17 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 23:07 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Any comments? Martin Wilck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0. the module loading tool runs during boot with PID 1. I do not understand how this can happen. request_module() cannot occur until usermodehelper_init() is called. This is only done

Bug#333052: insmod race?

2005-10-11 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 16:26 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:56:15AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: What do you think about this? It happens when udevd tries to load a dozen of modules at boot time. Is there a race in modules loading? It happens less frequently with other

Bug#273191: no longer seems to support kernel command line variable values with spaces in their name

2004-09-28 Thread Rusty Russell
around environment variables Status: Tested on 2.6.9-rc2-bk13 Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] As noticed by Joey Hess (and thanks for Christoph for forwarding it): if we decide that a command line option is not really for the kernel, we turn it into an init command line arg or env