Control: tag -1 confirmed Hi Benjamin, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> (2015-08-08): > The security update to the linux kernel (3.2.65-1+deb7u2) changed the > KPI by moving d_alias into the d_u union, which causes subsequent > (re)build attempts of the openafs kernel module to fail. (Existing > openafs kernel modules continued to work due to clever work by the > kernel maintainer.) This situation was maintained without great > incident until the upload of openafs 1.6.1-3+deb7u3 to the security > repo, which cause most people to attempt to build a new openafs kernel > module and fail. Two grave bugs (780865 and 794224) reflect that > situation. It would be slightly better to have those filed against the proper binary package or the source package. They're currently recorded in the BTS against (binary) openafs which doesn't exist. (For the record I've spotted this because the first thing I look for is the bug graph, to see what the status of the bug report is for all suites, as we usually like unstable/testing to have fixed versions in the first place, or as not affected.) > We had to deal with this problem for jessie back in February, but I > didn't have enough time to fix it for wheezy then. The jessie > updates also included a fix for a bug causing potential data > corruption in mmapped files; I included the fix for that (778851) in > this w-p-u as well. All of this seems rather reasonable. The first bullet point of the changelog entry seems like it has suffered from an unedited copy/paste after the bug closures though? Quoting it: > diff -Nru openafs-1.6.1/debian/changelog openafs-1.6.1/debian/changelog > --- openafs-1.6.1/debian/changelog 2015-07-30 06:27:51.000000000 -0400 > +++ openafs-1.6.1/debian/changelog 2015-08-08 14:23:47.000000000 -0400 > @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ > +openafs (1.6.1-3+deb7u4) wheezy-proposed-updates; urgency=medium > + > + * Fix the kernel module build when d_alias is in the d_u union > + (Closes: #780865, Closes: #794224) > + to d_alias being a member of the d_u union. Feel free to upload your package, with or without a possible edition of this entry. Mraw, KiBi.
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