linux-kernel - [ 20/20] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg

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Message-Id: <20121207005238.643334078@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Thu,  6 Dec 2012 16:54:35 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Subject: [ 20/20] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg

3.4-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>
[bwh: Fold in commit 3ce9e53e788881da0d5f3912f80e0dd6b501f304 to avoid
 conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 scripts/package/buildtar |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 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}"


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