Re: How to install kernel modules after a successful compiling

2020-12-09 Thread FuLong Wang
When I try to install the new built kernel and modules, i found the install script will assign the kernel version as "3.10.0". Where is this defined? Can we keep it as the current kernel version or change it as we want?

Re: How to install kernel modules after a successful compiling

2020-12-09 Thread FuLong Wang
Alexander, Thanks for the reminder! I realized that the new build module is with version "3.10.0" and so not match with my running kernel version "3.10.0-957.el7.s390x". I do confirm that i was using the right kernel source rpm. So, the question turns to why the "make modules" command ch

Re: How to install kernel modules after a successful compiling

2020-12-09 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 11:31 AM FuLong Wang wrote: > > > Hello Experts, > > > I'm trying to enable some infiniband related kernel modules (ib_ipoib, > iser, isert, etc) on my RHEL 7.6 instance running on IBM linuxONE > machine. (I have found the code in the kernel source tree.) > > After installin

Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] security/brute.c: Protect the stats pointer

2020-12-09 Thread John Wood
On Tue, 08 Dec 2020 09:42:59 -0500, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > On Tue, 08 Dec 2020 11:35:57 +0100, John Wood said: > > I think the stats pointer present in the task_struct's security blob > > needs to be protected against concurrency for the following reasons. > > > > 1.- The same process forking at

How to install kernel modules after a successful compiling

2020-12-09 Thread FuLong Wang
Hello Experts, I'm trying to enable some infiniband related kernel modules (ib_ipoib, iser, isert, etc) on my RHEL 7.6 instance running on IBM linuxONE machine. (I have found the code in the kernel source tree.) After installing the kernel source rpm in a normal user and make module selec