From aff617ea871d0568cc491bd116c0be1e857463bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lucas De Marchi Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:18:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] kmod 31 --- Makefile.am | 2 +- NEWS | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ configure.ac | 2 +- 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 8ba85c9..5b7abfe 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ AM_LDFLAGS = $(OUR_LDFLAGS) # 6. If any interfaces have been removed or changed since the last public # release, then set age to 0. LIBKMOD_CURRENT=6 -LIBKMOD_REVISION=0 +LIBKMOD_REVISION=1 LIBKMOD_AGE=4 noinst_LTLIBRARIES = shared/libshared.la diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fe95103..00b7f6d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,67 @@ +kmod 31 +======= + +- Improvements + + - Allow passing a path to modprobe so the module is loaded from + anywhere from the filesystem, but still handling the module + dependencies recorded in the indexes. This is mostly intended for kernel + developers to speedup testing their kernel modules without having to load the + dependencies manually or override the module in /usr/lib/modules/. + Now it's possible to do: + + # modprobe ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko + + As long as the dependencies didn't change, this should do the right thing + + - Use in-kernel decompression if available. This will check the runtime support + in the kernel for decompressing modules and use it through finit_module(). + Previously kmod would fallback to the older init_module() when using + compressed modules since there wasn't a way to instruct the kernel to + uncompress it on load or check if the kernel supported it or not. + This requires a recent kernel (>= 6.4) to have that support and + in-kernel decompression properly working in the kernel. + + - Make modprobe fallback to syslog when stderr is not available, as was + documented in the man page, but not implemented + + - Better explaing `modprobe -r` and how it differentiates from rmmod + + - depmod learned a `-o ` option to allow using a separate output + directory. With this, it's possible to split the output files from + the ones used as input from the kernel build system + + - Add compat with glibc >= 2.32.9000 that dropped __xstat + + - Improve testsuite to stop skipping tests when sysconfdir is something + other than /etc + + - Build system improvements and updates + + - Change a few return codes from -ENOENT to -ENODATA to avoid confusing output + in depmod when the module itself lacks a particular ELF section due to e.g. + CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=n in the kernel. + + +- Bug Fixes + + - Fix testsuite using uninitialized memory when testing module removal + with --wait + + - Fix testsuite not correctly overriding the stat syscall on 32-bit + platforms. For most architectures this was harmless, but for MIPS it + was causing some tests to fail. + + - Fix handling unknown signature algorithm + + - Fix linking with a static liblzma, libzstd or zlib + + - Fix memory leak when removing module holders + + - Fix out-of-bounds access when using very long paths as argument to rmmod + + - Fix warnings reported by UBSan + kmod 30 ======= diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 6064dee..82a8532 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ AC_PREREQ(2.64) AC_INIT([kmod], - [30], + [31], [linux-modules@vger.kernel.org], [kmod], [http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git])