Bug 506759 - modprobe folly with sha modules
Summary: modprobe folly with sha modules
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: module-init-tools
Version: 15
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jon Masters
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 516998 FedoraMIT
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Reported: 2009-06-18 15:28 UTC by Jarod Wilson
Modified: 2012-08-06 20:06 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-06 20:06:24 UTC
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Description Jarod Wilson 2009-06-18 15:28:19 UTC
Description of problem:
modprobe and modinfo are falling down somewhere with respect to sha* modules.

# modinfo sha512
modinfo: could not find module sha512

And yet...

# modprobe sha512

...works just fine.

# lsmod |grep sha
sha512_generic          5536  0

Its even worse for sha384 though, which is provided by the sha512 module:

# modprobe sha384
FATAL: Module sha512 not found.

This happens both with and without sha512_generic already loaded.

This is also the root cause of sha384 crypto self-test failures:

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org/msg03282.html


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
module-init-tools-3.7-9.fc11.x86_64

Comment 2 Miloslav Trmač 2010-07-16 19:59:37 UTC
Still seeing this on Fedora 13.

From my POV, it's fine that modinfo ignores aliases.  This is not:

$ modprobe sha384
FATAL: Module sha512 not found
$ modprobe -C /dev/null sha384
$ # OK

Details:
Per (modinfo sha512_generic), this module has aliases "sha512" and "sha384".  These apparently work.

/etc/modprobe.conf.d/dist.conf contains:
   alias sha384 sha512
which is an alias to an alias, and as the (modprobe -C /dev/null ) above shows, apparently breaks things.

Comment 3 Miloslav Trmač 2010-07-16 20:00:44 UTC
(That's module-init-tools-3.11.1-2.fc13.x86_64)

Comment 4 Jon Masters 2010-11-10 04:21:10 UTC
This bug was assigned to the wrong user name (I have two) and is now fixed. I will address it in a module-init-tools update. Currently, I am working to fix compressed module support before pushing an update as Anaconda will need that.

Comment 5 Jon Masters 2011-04-19 00:20:25 UTC
Checking status of this.

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Comment 7 Miloslav Trmač 2011-06-03 13:02:09 UTC
I can still reproduce comment#2 with module-init-tools-3.12-5.fc15.x86_64.

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