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Bug 1782690

Summary: The package ndctl is creating a dracut configuration file not compliant with dracut.conf requirement
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Paolo Di Napoli <pdinapol>
Component: ndctlAssignee: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Storage QE <storage-qe>
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Version: 7.7CC: orion, yizhan
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Description Paolo Di Napoli 2019-12-12 07:03:46 UTC
Description of problem:
When installing the package ndctl.x86_64 0:64.1-2.el7 the generated configuration file /etc/dracut.conf.d/nvdimm-security.conf is not compliant with dracut.conf requirements.

According to man dracut.conf the directive add_drivers should contain a space separated list of kernel modules including spaces at the beginning and at the end of the list:

       add_drivers+=" <kernel modules> "
           Specify a space-separated list of kernel modules to add to the
           initramfs. The kernel modules have to be specified without the
           ".ko" suffix.

The actual /etc/dracut.conf.d/nvdimm-security.conf content is:

# Make sure libnvdimm is loaded and ndctl is available in the initramfs
install_items+="/bin/ndctl"
add_drivers+="libnvdimm"

so no spaces at the beginning and at the end of the list.
This can cause problems as mentioned in below KCS
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4386041

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ndctl.x86_64 0:64.1-2.el7

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install ndctl
2. cat cat /etc/dracut.conf.d/nvdimm-security.conf
3.

Actual results:
# Make sure libnvdimm is loaded and ndctl is available in the initramfs
install_items+="/bin/ndctl"
add_drivers+="libnvdimm"


Expected results:
# Make sure libnvdimm is loaded and ndctl is available in the initramfs
install_items+="/bin/ndctl"
add_drivers+=" libnvdimm "


Additional info:

Comment 2 Zhang Yi 2019-12-12 07:30:46 UTC
This issue has been fixed on ndctl-65-5.el7.x86_64


[root@rdma-perf-00 ~]$ cat /etc/dracut.conf.d/nvdimm-security.conf 
# Make sure libnvdimm is loaded and ndctl is available in the initramfs
install_items+="/bin/ndctl"
add_drivers+=" libnvdimm "
[root@rdma-perf-00 ~]$ rpm -qa ndctl
ndctl-65-5.el7.x86_64

Comment 3 Jeff Moyer 2019-12-12 16:09:31 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1740383 ***

Comment 4 Orion Poplawski 2020-12-18 17:02:34 UTC
You fixed add_drivers, but not install_items:

dracut-install: ERROR: installing '/etc/lvm/lvmlocal.conf/bin/ndctl'
/usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D /var/tmp/dracut.gU2jur/initramfs -a /usr/lib/udev/phys-port-name-gen /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/76-phys-port-name.rules /etc/lvm/lvmlocal.conf/bin/ndctl

# Make sure libnvdimm is loaded and ndctl is available in the initramfs
install_items+="/bin/ndctl"
add_drivers+=" libnvdimm "

ndctl-65-5.el7.x86_64

Comment 5 Orion Poplawski 2020-12-18 17:05:56 UTC
I filed bug 1909233 for that.