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SubjectRe: [PATCH 036/270] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 02:26:27AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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@suse.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@firstfloor.org>
> > Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.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@canonical.com>
>
> This is missing from 3.4.

I don't think it is needed, as 3ce9e53e788881da0d5f3912f80e0dd6b501f304
didn't go into 3.4, so all should be good for now.

thanks,

greg k-h


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