Bug 689566 - mark drivers as tech preview
Summary: mark drivers as tech preview
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Don Zickus
QA Contact: Mike Gahagan
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Blocks: 701722
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-03-21 19:27 UTC by Don Zickus
Modified: 2011-05-19 12:43 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32-130.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
: 701722 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2011-05-19 12:43:09 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0542 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 kernel security, bug fix and enhancement update 2011-05-19 11:58:07 UTC

Description Don Zickus 2011-03-21 19:27:57 UTC
Description of problem:

Need to mark drivers in the kernel as tech preview.  I put together a patch that utilizes the infrastructure already in place.

This will help with certification and flag modules and features that are loaded to prevent certification from succeeding.

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Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2011-03-21 19:29:38 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.

Comment 3 Aristeu Rozanski 2011-04-07 14:14:51 UTC
Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-130.el6

Comment 6 Mike Gahagan 2011-04-12 18:25:10 UTC
LIST (provide full path)
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DIF/DIX                 block/blk-integrity.c
bna                     drivers/net/bna/bnad.c
bfa (FCoE)              drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_im.c
btrfs                   fs/btrfs/super.c
ecryptfs                fs/ecryptfs/main.c
fscache                 fs/fscache/main.c

I've confirmed the Tech Preview warning shows up in dmesg when all the above modules get loaded, except for DIF/DIX.. It appears that doesn't get built into its own module so I'm not sure if there is any way to test that one.

Comment 7 Don Zickus 2011-04-12 18:33:57 UTC
I added Mike S. to the cc.  I used a module param to test the DIF/DIX stuff

IIRC, I used (per Mike's suggestion)

# modprobe scsi_debug dix=17 dif=1

and it caused the DIF/DIX taint as expected.

Cheers,
Don

Comment 8 Mike Gahagan 2011-04-12 18:41:55 UTC
Confirmed scsi_debug with dix=17 dif=1 gives us the expected dmesg warning.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 12:43:09 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0542.html


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