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| author | Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> | 2015-03-01 14:43:09 -0300 |
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| committer | Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> | 2015-03-01 14:43:09 -0300 |
| commit | d9c71758595cad72c8278179eabf17017615f704 (patch) | |
| tree | c8c4a738b93c3ffe99de81da186860620c763271 | |
| parent | f7c243ac59d56d82903d0b029f029d2621f63460 (diff) | |
| download | kmod-d9c71758595cad72c8278179eabf17017615f704.tar.gz | |
kmod 20v20
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile.am | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 40 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 2 |
3 files changed, 42 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index d8d1994..896ae63 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ SED_PROCESS = \ $(SED_PROCESS) LIBKMOD_CURRENT=4 -LIBKMOD_REVISION=9 +LIBKMOD_REVISION=10 LIBKMOD_AGE=2 noinst_LTLIBRARIES = shared/libshared.la @@ -1,3 +1,43 @@ +kmod 20 +======= +- Bug fixes: + - Handle bogus values from ELF, making sure they don't overflow while + parsing the file + - Fix leak in depmod when -b flag is passed multiple times + - Multiple minor fixes from static analysis by coverity and + clang-analyze + - Fix race between loading modules and checking if it's loaded in the + kernel + +- New features: + - There's a change in behavior regarding builtin modules: we now only + consider as builtin those that are present in modules.builtin index. + Previously we were also checking the presence of + /sys/module/<module-name>, but this is racy and only modules that + contain parameters are the ones creating a directory in sysfs. + + Now some commands will start to fail, e.g. "modprobe vt". Since vt + can't be compiled as a module it's not present in modules.builtin + index. Previously we would report at as builtin, but now we fail + because we couldn't find the module. + +- Improvements: + - Integration of gcov into the build. Currently libkmod is at ~70% + covered and tools at ~50% by tests in the testsuite. Utility + functions and structures in shared have more than 90% of coverage. + - Upload build to coverity + +- Improvements to testsuite: + - Fix parsing return codes of init_module() calls + - Add tests for utility functions in shared/ + - Add tests for kmod_module_remove_module() + - Add playground, in which our own modules are compiled + - Port all tests to use modules from module-playground instead of + copying prebuilt modules to the repository + - Properly handle binaries that exit with no output + - Besides comparing the output of commands, allow to copy to + stdout/stderr + kmod 19 ======= diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 92790db..eb0f9d1 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ AC_PREREQ(2.64) AC_INIT([kmod], - [19], + [20], [linux-modules@vger.kernel.org], [kmod], [http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git]) |