[CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build

Sat Mar 2 12:51:28 UTC 2019
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 03:12:40PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote:
>    On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 4:44 AM Pasi KÀrkkÀinen <[1]pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>      Hi,
> 
>      On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:49:30PM +0200, Pasi KÀrkkÀinen wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 10:35:56PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote:
>      > >Â  Â  Hello,
>      > >Â  Â  I built 4.9.155 for both el6 and el7, you can test them here:
>      > >Â  Â
>      [1][2]https://repo.aerisnetwork.com/archive/kernel-4.9.155-34.el6.x86_64.rpm
>      > >Â  Â
>      [2][3]https://repo.aerisnetwork.com/archive/kernel-4.9.155-34.el7.x86_64.rpm
>      > >Â  Â  It works fine for me so far on el6, I'll update my pull request
>      later on
>      > >Â  Â  GitHub with this version.
>      > >Â  Â  [root at node-tmp1 ~]# cat /proc/version
>      > >Â  Â  Linux version 4.9.155-34.el6.x86_64
>      ([3][4]mockbuild at build.aerisnetwork.net)
>      > >Â  Â  (gcc version 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5) (GCC) ) #1 SMP
>      Sun Feb 10
>      > >Â  Â  11:20:04 EST 2019
>      >
>      > Great, thanks a lot! I'll give it a go.
>      >
> 
>      With initial testing seems to work OK for me!
>      Meanwhile upstream kernel is up to v4.9.161, so let's update the
>      sig-virt kernel to that version..
> 
>      Karl: Can you prepare a PR?
> 
>      Thanks,
> 
>      -- Pasi
> 
>    I built 4.9.161, works for me on el6:
>

Nice!

>    [root at node-tmp1 ~]# cat /proc/version
>    Linux version 4.9.161-34.el6.x86_64 ([5]mockbuild at build.aerisnetwork.net)
>    (gcc version 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Feb 27
>    09:48:40 EST 2019
>    Only one strange thing, I had to run grub-install because Grub couldn't
>    find root device after reboot, not sure this has something to do with the
>    kernel upgrade.
>    Kernel 4.9.161 doesn't have the patch for CVE-2019-8912 yet so we might
>    wait until it get released.
>    I updated my PR: [6]https://github.com/CentOS-virt7/xen-kernel/pull/18
>    [7]https://repo.aerisnetwork.com/archive/kernel-4.9.161-34.el6.x86_64.rpm
>    [8]https://repo.aerisnetwork.com/archive/kernel-4.9.161-34.el7.x86_64.rpm
>

I'll give it a go soon.


>    Anthony Perard already tried to build my PR on the CBS but he was not able
>    to enable the SCL repo
>    ([9]http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/sclo/$basearch/rh/) to get
>    devtoolset-7. We might need to get help from centos-devel.
>
>    Karl
> 

OK. Something to discuss on #centos-devel perhaps?


Thanks a lot!

-- Pasi