Re: Pending patches for upcoming Core Update 154

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hi,

> On 30 Jan 2021, at 17:26, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Michael,
> 
> thank you for trying to reproduce this.
> 
> I am currently building current IPFire 2.x "next" with ccache deleted and will report my findings/
> progress here. (binutils 2.36 turns out to break so much stuff that I am currently considering not
> to send in a patch for it and wait for linux/hyperscan/... to adapt by themselves. Hrmpf.)

I do not see anything in the change log that sounds potentially dangerous and would break things.

It simply sounds like there has something gone wrong with your compiler cache (it also caches linked objects, too).

-Michael

> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter Müller
> 
>> Hi,
>> I installed a virtual machine with OpenSuSE Leap and I am past the kernel now with my build.
>> Could you simply remove the ccache directory from your build environment and run your build again?
>> It does not seem to be the distribution.
>> -Michael
>>> On 28 Jan 2021, at 20:20, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello *,
>>> 
>>> to keep everyone updated: The root cause for this seems to be a quirk somewhere in the vicinity
>>> of objtools (part of the binutils):
>>> 
>>>> arch/x86/crypto/sha512-mb/.tmp_sha512_mb_mgr_flush_avx2.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .text
>>>>  CC [M]  arch/x86/crypto/sha512-mb/sha512_mb_mgr_init_avx2.o
>>>>  AS [M]  arch/x86/crypto/sha512-mb/sha512_mb_mgr_submit_avx2.o
>>>> arch/x86/crypto/sha512-mb/.tmp_sha512_mb_mgr_submit_avx2.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .text
>>>>  AS [M]  arch/x86/crypto/sha512-mb/sha512_x4_avx2.o
>>>> arch/x86/crypto/sha512-mb/.tmp_sha512_x4_avx2.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .text
>>>>  LD [M]  arch/x86/crypto/sha512-mb/sha512-mb.o
>>>>  AS      arch/x86/entry/entry_64.o
>>>> arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S: Assembler messages:
>>>> arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:1642: Warning: no instruction mnemonic suffix given and no register operands; using default for `sysret'
>>>>  AS      arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.o
>>>> arch/x86/entry/.tmp_thunk_64.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol table
>>>> make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:427: arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.o] Error 1
>>>> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:585: arch/x86/entry] Error 2
>>>> make[1]: *** [Makefile:1053: arch/x86] Error 2
>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.212'
>>>> make: *** [linux:150: /usr/src/log/linux-4.14.212-ipfire] Error 2
>>> 
>>> Alas, this is currently reproducible on OpenSuSE Leap 15.2 machines trying to build an untouched
>>> version of IPFire 2.x (both "next" and "master"). :-/
>>> 
>>> Thanks, and best regards,
>>> Peter Müller
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Hello development folks,
>>>> 
>>>> Man proposes, God disposes... *sigh*
>>>> 
>>>> Is anyone aware about current kernel in next being un-compilable or am I bumping into some
>>>> personal side-effects again?
>>>> 
>>>>> linux (4.14.212)                                                                                                                                                                                                    KCFG=[     3:48 ][ FAIL ]
>>>>> 
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_refcount_item.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_rmap_item.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_trans_bmap.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_trans_buf.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_trans_extfree.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_trans_inode.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_trans_refcount.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_trans_rmap.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_dquot_item.o
>>>>>    fs/xfs/.tmp_xfs_trans_inode.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .text
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_trans_dquot.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_qm_syscalls.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_qm_bhv.o
>>>>>    fs/xfs/.tmp_xfs_trans_dquot.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .text
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_qm.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_quotaops.o
>>>>>    fs/xfs/.tmp_xfs_qm_bhv.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .text
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_rtalloc.o
>>>>>    fs/xfs/.tmp_xfs_dquot.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .init.text
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_acl.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.o
>>>>>    CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl32.o
>>>>>    LD [M]  fs/xfs/xfs.o
>>>>>    AR      fs/built-in.o
>>>>>    make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.212'
>>>>>    make: *** [linux:149: /usr/src/log/linux-4.14.212-ipfire] Error 2
>>>> 
>>>> Unfortunately, ~/devel/ipfire-2.x/log/_build.ipfire.log does not contain further information regarding
>>>> the problem. Having had some issues with a too old kernel on my workstation, this should now be fine again:
>>>> 
>>>>> user(a)machine:~/devel/ipfire-2.x> uname -a
>>>>> Linux machine 5.3.18-lp152.60-default #1 SMP Tue Jan 12 23:10:31 UTC 2021 (9898712) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>> 
>>>> Am I missing something? If yes, could somebody please enlighten my tired brain? :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks, and best regards,
>>>> Peter Müller
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello *,
>>>>> 
>>>>> to avoid redundancies: I am currently working on Postfix 3.5.9 and (more important) sudo
>>>>> 1.9.5p2 for upcoming Core Update 154. Both fix some security issues; I am pretty sure you
>>>>> have heard of CVE-2021-3156 affecting the latter by now.
>>>>> 
>>>>> There might be some minor stuff (USB/PCI database files, etc.) to do as well, but I have
>>>>> not checked that, yet. :-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, and best regards,
>>>>> Peter Müller
>>>>>