linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 036/270] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg

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Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:26:27 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 036/270] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make
 tar-pkg

On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 14:55 -0200, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> 3.5.7u1 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
> 
> commit fe04ddf7c2910362f3817c8156e41cbd6c0ee35d upstream.
> 
> There were reports of users destroying their Fedora installs by a kernel
> tarball that replaces the /lib -> /usr/lib symlink. Let's remove the
> toplevel directories from the tarball to prevent this from happening.
> 
> Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
> Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
> [ herton: dropped unrelated changes to arch/x86/Makefile and
>   scripts/Makefile.fwinst, which don't apply anyway on 3.5, see commit
>   3ce9e53e788881da0d5f3912f80e0dd6b501f304 upstream ]
> Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>

This is missing from 3.4.

Ben.

> ---
>  scripts/package/buildtar |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/package/buildtar b/scripts/package/buildtar
> index 8a7b155..d0d748e 100644
> --- a/scripts/package/buildtar
> +++ b/scripts/package/buildtar
> @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ esac
>  	if tar --owner=root --group=root --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
>  		opts="--owner=root --group=root"
>  	fi
> -	tar cf - . $opts | ${compress} > "${tarball}${file_ext}"
> +	tar cf - boot/* lib/* $opts | ${compress} > "${tarball}${file_ext}"
>  )
>  
>  echo "Tarball successfully created in ${tarball}${file_ext}"

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

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