[CentOS-devel] CentOS Stream 8 kernel

On 14/01/2021 20:50, Gena Makhomed wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I found regression in the CentOS Stream 8 kernels, and create
> bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913806
> 
> After reading https://wiki.centos.org/Contribute/CentOSStream
> I try to download kernel sources and look for root cause of bug,
> but dist-git and source-git repos does not contain kernel sources,
> even if I try to execute %prep phase. For this reason I can't
> even try to find root cause of this bug by myself.
> 
> This bug is critical for me, because currently I try to use
> systemd-nspawn for containers virtualization in production.
> If future CentOS 8.4 will contain this bug - it will be disaster.
> 
> What else I can do (as user or developer) for fixing this bug?
> 

Not a lot really, because until Red Hat / CentOS provide a proper Git 
repository of all kernel commits it will be impossible for you to bisect 
the code to identify the commit that introduced the bug, let alone offer 
a fix.

About all you can do is file a bug and hope for the best.