Thread (28 messages) 28 messages, 4 authors, 2012-12-09

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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2012-12-07 00:56:26
Also in: lkml

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Michal Marek <redacted>

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 <redacted>
Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <redacted>
[bwh: Fold in commit 3ce9e53e788881da0d5f3912f80e0dd6b501f304 to avoid
 conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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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